| colony structure and parentage in wild colonies of co-operatively breeding damaraland mole-rats suggest incest avoidance alone may not maintain reproductive skew. | colonies of co-operatively breeding african mole-rats have traditionally been thought to be composed of a single breeding female, one or two breeding males, and their offspring. in the naked mole-rat (heterocephalus glaber), the occurrence of facultative inbreeding means incest avoidance cannot prevent reproduction in subordinate group members, and physiological suppression of reproductive function by the breeding female occurs in both sexes. in contrast, previous studies of captive colonies of ... | 2004 | 15245409 |