Browsing Research Articles (University of Pretoria) by UP Author "Wallace, Kyra Mary Elizabeth"

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The best of both worlds : no apparent trade-off between immunity and reproduction in two group-living African mole-rat species

Wallace, Kyra Mary Elizabeth; Hart, D.W. (Daniel); Venter, Francois; Janse van Vuuren, Andries K.; Bennett, Nigel C. (Royal Society, 2023-08)

Co-operatively breeding mammals often exhibit a female reproductive skew and suppression of the subordinate non-breeding group members. According to evolutionary theory and the immunity–fertility axis, an inverse relationship ...
A comprehensive profile of reproductive hormones in eusocial Damaraland mole-rats (Fukomys damarensis)

Wallace, Kyra Mary Elizabeth; Hart, D.W. (Daniel); Hagenah, Nicole; Ganswindt, Andre; Bennett, Nigel Charles (Elsevier, 2023-03)

In species where sociality and group cohesion are primarily determined by the maintenance of a reproductive division of labour and cooperative behaviours, the eusocial Damaraland mole-rat (Fukomys damarensis) presents a ...

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