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Morphological and genomic shifts in mole-rat 'queens' increase fecundity but reduce skeletal integrity.

Johnston, Rachel A; Vullioud, Philippe; Thorley, Jack; Kirveslahti, Henry; Shen, Leyao; Mukherjee, Sayan; Karner, Courtney M; ... (9 authors) (eLife, 2021-04-12)

In some mammals and many social insects, highly cooperative societies are characterized by reproductive division of labor, in which breeders and nonbreeders become behaviorally and morphologically distinct. While differences ...