Nigel C. Bennett

Research interests

Publications

• Universal DNA methylation age across mammalian tissues

  Nature Aging · 2023 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-023-00462-6

• DNA methylation networks underlying mammalian traits

  Science · 2023 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abq5693

• The naked truth: a comprehensive clarification and classification of current ‘myths’ in naked mole‐rat biology

  Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2021 · 10.1111/brv.12791

• Fructose-driven glycolysis supports anoxia resistance in the naked mole-rat

  Science · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aab3896

• Identification of animal movement patterns using tri-axial magnetometry

  Movement Ecology · 2017 · 10.1186/s40462-017-0097-x

• In contrast to many other mammals, cetaceans have relatively small hippocampi that appear to lack adult neurogenesis

  Brain Structure and Function · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s00429-013-0660-1

• Oxidative stress, anti‐oxidant therapies and chronic kidney disease

  Nephrology · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1797.2012.01572.x

• The new framework for understanding placental mammal evolution

  BioEssays · 2009 · 10.1002/bies.200900053

• Molecular cell biology of androgen receptor signalling

  The International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology · 2009 · 10.1016/j.biocel.2009.11.013

• Stress and the suppression of subordinate reproduction in cooperatively breeding meerkats

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0510038103

• Intrasexual competition and sexual selection in cooperative mammals

  Nature · 2006 · 10.1038/nature05386

• Ultraviolet signals ultra-aggression in a lizard

  Animal Behaviour · 2006 · 10.1016/j.anbehav.2005.10.018

• Phylogeographical patterns of genetic divergence and speciation in African mole‐rats (Family: Bathyergidae)

  Molecular Ecology · 2004 · 10.1046/j.1365-294x.2004.02099.x

• Family values: group dynamics and social control of reproduction in African mole-rats

  Trends in Ecology & Evolution · 2001 · 10.1016/s0169-5347(01)02116-4

• Reproductive suppression and inbreeding avoidance in wild populations of co-operatively breeding meerkats ( Suricata suricatta )

  Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology · 2000 · 10.1007/s002650000249

• Inbreeding avoidance and reproductive skew in a cooperative mammal

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2000 · 10.1098/rspb.2000.1074

• Food availability and foraging by wild colonies of Damaraland mole-rats ( Cryptomys damarensis ): implications for sociality

  Oecologia · 1998 · 10.1007/s004420050380

• Ecological constraints drive social evolution in the African mole–rats

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 1997 · 10.1098/rspb.1997.0226

• Reproductive suppression in subordinate, non-breeding female Damaraland mole-rats: two components to a lifetime of socially induced infertility

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 1996 · 10.1098/rspb.1996.0234

• Mammalian eusociality: a family affair

  Trends in Ecology & Evolution · 1994 · https://doi.org/10.1016/0169-5347(94)90267-4

• Eusociality has evolved independently in two genera of bathyergid mole-rats — but occurs in no other subterranean mammal

  Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology · 1993 · 10.1007/bf02027122

• The Social Structure and Reproductive Biology of Colonies of the Mole-Rat, Cryptomys damarensis (Rodentia, Bathyergidae)

  Journal of Mammalogy · 1988 · 10.2307/1381379

• Daily and seasonal temperatures in the burrows of African rodent moles

  South African Journal of Zoology · 1988 · 10.1080/02541858.1988.11448101

• The reproductive biology of the Cape mole‐rat, Georychus capensis (Rodentia, Bathyergidae)

  Journal of Zoology · 1988 · 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1988.tb04989.x

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