Naked mole-rat queens use a chemical signal to suppress fertility in rivals

Organization: Jacek Krywko

Location: Global

Source: Jacek Krywko

Naked mole rats are weird. They spend their lives almost entirely underground, are largely insensitive to some kinds of pain, can persist without oxygen for a long time, rarely develop cancer, and can live past 30 years, which is decades longer than similarly sized rodents. They are also eusocial, like ants, bees, or termites—in a colony that can hold more than a hundred animals, only one female, the queen, breeds. We didn’t know how exactly naked mole-rat queens stop other females from breed…

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