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A Neural Mechanism For Capnotaxis In The Naked Mole-Rat, Michael Zions
A Neural Mechanism For Capnotaxis In The Naked Mole-Rat, Michael Zions
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A Neural Mechanism for Capnotaxis in the Naked Mole-Rat
The Naked Mole-Rat (NM-R) is a small hairless rodent that has thrived underground in the Horn of Africa for the past 40 million years. It was first discovered in 1847, but has only been maintained in captivity and studied as a laboratory animal over the past 40 years. To date, more than 400 scientific papers have been published on this species. This is relatively few compared to established lab animals like rats and mice, but those papers contain a trove of information that has changed our understanding of the constraints of …