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Image citations

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Home page

"Mole Rat." Animals. National Geographic Society. 7 Nov. 2008 <http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/naked-mole-rat.html>.

Distribution of the naked mole-rat image taken from Wikimedia Commons. Permission to copy granted under the GNU Free Documentation License.

Phylogeny page

Faulkes, C. G., Bennett, N.C., Bruford, M.W., O'Brien, H.P., Aguilar, G.H., Jarvis, J.U.M. (1997) "Ecological constraints drive social evolution in the African mole-rats." Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B 264: 1619-627. Pg. 1625

Ontogeny page

Goldman, S.L., Forger, N.G., Goldman, B.D. (2006) "Influence of gonadal sex hormones on behavioral components of the reproductive hierarchy in naked mole-rats." Hormones and Behavior 50: 77-84. Pg. 79

Peroulakis, M.E., Goldman, B.D., Forger, N.G. (2001) "Perineal muscles and motoneurons are sexually monomorphic in the naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber)." Journal of Neurobiology 51: 33-42. Pg. 36

Mechanism

"Mole rats make their naked debut at Brookfield Zoo." Marni Pyke. The DailyHerald 7/16/2008. accessed December 4th 2008 <http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfacts/factfiles/614.shtml>.

Henry, E.C., Dengler-Crish, C.M., Catania, K.C. (2007) "Growing out of a caste – reproduction and the making of the queen mole-rat.” The Journal of Experimental Biology 210: 261-268. Pg. 262.