Subterranean life-style does not limit long distance dispersal in African mole-rats

KT Finn, J Thorley, HM Bensch, M Zöttl - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Dispersal from the natal site to breeding sites is a crucial phase in the life history of animals
and can have profound effects on the reproductive ecology and the structure of animal …

Capture order across social bathyergids indicates similarities in division of labour and spatial organisation

M Zöttl, HM Bensch, KT Finn, DW Hart… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The social mole-rats of the family Bathyergidae show elaborate social organisation that may
include division of labour between breeders and non-breeders as well as across non …

Self-domestication underground? Testing for social and morphological correlates of animal personality in cooperatively-breeding Ansell's mole-rats (Fukomys anselli)

S Begall, L Bottermann, KR Caspar - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Ansell's mole-rats (Fukomys anselli) are sexually dimorphic subterranean rodents that live in
families consisting of a single breeding pair and their late-dispersing non-breeding offspring …

Freeze-drying can replace cold-chains for transport and storage of fecal microbiome samples

HM Bensch, C Tolf, J Waldenström, D Lundin, M Zöttl - PeerJ, 2022 - peerj.com
Background The transport and storage of samples in temperatures of minus 80 C is
commonly considered as the gold standard for microbiome studies. However, studies …