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Perioral secretions enable complex social signaling in African mole-rats (genus Fukomys)
K. R. Caspar, P. Stopka, D. Issel…·S. Begall
The paper investigates perioral glands in African mole-rats, showing they produce complex odor signals involved in social communication through histology, behavior, and metabolomics.
DOI 10.1038/s41598-022-26351-3