Appearance Naked molerat in an underground chamber, feeding while using its dexterous paws to hold food. A quarter of a mole rat’s muscle mass is in its jaws. ©Neil Bromhall/Shutterstock.com The naked mole rat is a small rodent with a cylindrical body and pinkish skin that’s almost...
Naked mole-rats (NMRs; Heterocephalus glaber; Fig. 1) have long captured the attention of biologists and the general public because of their unusual appearance and lifestyle. NMRs are considered eusocial and exhibit a subterranean existence. Presumably because of frequent exposure to harsh environme...
Enrichment of the habitat of captive rodents Heterocephalus glaber (naked mole rats) to implement their innate behavioral pattern of digging dense soil in search of food, paradoxically led to the appearance of unusual animals in the colony. They showed signs of cachexia, distinguished from other ...
Hyaluronan (HA) is a key component of the extracellular matrix. Given the fundamental role of HA in the cancer resistance of the naked mole-rat (NMR), we undertook to explore the structural and soft matter properties of this species-specific variant, a n
We evoke the term 'degenerative orthogenesis' [57] to describe the degenerate appearance and poor moti- lity of naked mole rat spermatozoa. According to Gould [57] (also [58] and [59]), Wilhelm Haacke devised the word "orthogenesis" which means "straight (line) generation" and ...
s co-founders are interested in pursuing the dream of immortality. TheCalifornia Life Company, or Calico, was formed in 2013 to study longevity as a long-term research project. And the firm, funded by Google and pharmaceutical company Abbvie, is using the long-lived naked mole rat to ...
So sudden is their appearance that, most years, these fresh and elegant autumn bulbs take many gardeners completely by surprise.Thenaked budspop up like mushrooms through the bare earth and, in a matter of days, they have opened out into rosy-pink chalices, like giant crocuses. ...
Wasn’t that the song they used for your appearance on The Flintstones? DH: “Roses and Rainbows” was a big hit in town. I think it was helped along when Billboard featured it on a flexi disk in one of their issues. I really had no intention of performing live at the time. I ...
mole-ratCircadianrhythmLocomotoractivityEntrainmentA wide variety of organisms exhibit various circadian rhythms in their behavior and physiology. Circadian rhythms are regulated by internal clocks that are generally entrained primarily by the environmental light:dark (L:D) cycle. There have been few ...
We evoke the term 'degenerative orthogenesis' [57] to describe the degenerate appearance and poor motility of naked mole rat spermatozoa. According to Gould [57] (also [58] and [59]), Wilhelm Haacke devised the word "orthogenesis" which means "straight (line) generation" and subsequently "...