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

裸鼹鼠女王通过化学信号抑制竞争对手的生育能力

作者: Jacek Krywko | 分类: Science, Biology, mole rats, olfaction | 原文: arstechnica.com

时间: Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:51:52 +0000

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.

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