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Movements and growth rates of the broadnose sevengill shark Notorynchus cepedianus in southern Africa: results from a long-term cooperative tagging programme by Engelbrecht, TM, Kock, AA, O'Riain, MJ, Mann, BQ, Dunlop, SW, Barnett, A

“…Top predators are important components of healthy ecosystems but are at risk of overexploitation due to insufficient data on life-history characteristics and…”
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Monkey Management: Using Spatial Ecology to Understand the Extent and Severity of Human–Baboon Conflict in the Cape Peninsula, South Africa by Hoffman, Tali S., O'Riain, M Justin

“…Conflict with humans poses one of the greatest threats to the persistence and survival of all wildlife. In the Cape Peninsula, South Africa, human–baboon…”
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Hare today, gone tomorrow: the role of interspecific competition in shaping riverine rabbit occurrence by Woodgate, Z, Distiller, G, O’Riain, MJ

“…Effective conservation, particularly of threatened species, requires an understanding of both abiotic and biotic drivers of distribution. In the case of one of…”
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A dispersive morph in the naked mole-rat by O'Riain, M. Justin, Jarvis, Jennifer U. M, Faulkes, Chris G

“…Close inbreeding is known for a variety of small mammal species for which a high probability of mortality during dispersal makes helping and delayed maturation…”
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On tracks: A spoor-based occupancy survey of lion Panthera leo distribution in Kafue National Park, Zambia by Midlane, N., O’Riain, M.J., Balme, G.A, Robinson, H.S., Hunter, L.T.B.

“…•First survey data on lions in Kafue, Zambia’s largest National Park.•First application of track-based occupancy surveys to African lions.•Identification of…”
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Cooperation, Control, and Concession in Meerkat Groups by Clutton-Brock, T. H., Brotherton, P. N. M., Russell, A. F., O'Riain, M. J., Gaynor, D., Kansky, R., Griffin, A., Manser, M., Sharpe, L., McIlrath, G. M., Small, T., Moss, A., Monfort, S.

“…"Limited control" models of reproductive skew in cooperative societies suggest that the frequency of breeding by subordinates is determined by the outcome of…”
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Selfish Sentinels in Cooperative Mammals by Clutton-Brock, T. H., O'Riain, M. J., Brotherton, P. N. M., Gaynor, D., Kansky, R., Griffin, A. S., Manser, M.

“…Like humans engaged in risky activities, group members of some animal societies take turns acting as sentinels. Explanations of the evolution of sentinel…”
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Colony member recognition and xenophobia in the naked mole-rat by O’RIAIN, M.J, JARVIS, J.U.M

“…The ability of naked mole-rats,Heterocephalus glaberto discriminate between familiar and unfamiliar conspecifics and their response to intruders was…”
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Contributions to cooperative rearing in meerkats by Clutton-Brock, T.H., Brotherton, P.N.M., O'Riain, M.J., Griffin, A.S., Gaynor, D., Kansky, R., Sharpe, L., McIlrath, G.M.

“…In vertebrate societies where young are reared communally, nonbreeding helpers are usually closely related to young but often vary widely in their…”
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Organization of somatosensory cortical areas in the naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber) by Henry, Erin C., Remple, Michael S., O'Riain, M. Justin, Catania, Kenneth C.

“…Multiunit electrophysiology was combined with histological analysis of cortical sections to investigate the organization of somatosensory areas in the naked…”
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Morphological Castes in a Vertebrate by O'Riain, M. J., Jarvis, J. U. M., Alexander, R., Buffenstein, R., Peeters, C.

“…Morphological specialization for a specific role has, until now, been assumed to be restricted to social invertebrates. Herein we show that complete physical…”
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Offspring food allocation by parents and helpers in a cooperative mammal by Brotherton, P. N. M., Clutton-Brock, T. H., O'Riain, M. J., Gaynor, D., Sharpe, L., Kansky, R., McIlrath, G. M.

“…In cooperatively breeding species, helpers and parents commonly face two decisions when they find a food item: first, whether to feed the item to a young group…”
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Infanticide and expulsion of females in a cooperative mammal by Clutton-Brock, T. H., Brotherton, P. N. M., Smith, R., McIlrath, G. M., Kansky, R., Gaynor, D., O'Riain, M. J., Skinner, J. D.

“…), helpers of both sexes assist breeding adults in defending and feeding pups, and survival rises in larger groups. Despite this, dominant breeding females…”
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Individual contributions to babysitting in a cooperative mongoose, Suricata suricatta by Clutton-Brock, T.H., Brotherton, P.N.M., O'Riain, M.J., Griffin, A.S., Gaynor, D., Sharpe, L., Kansky, R., Manser, M.B., McIlrath, G.M.

“…helpers babysit pups at the natal burrow for the first month of pup life and frequent babysitters suffer substantial weight losses over the period of…”
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IS THE CAPE DUNE MOLE-RAT, BATHYERGUS SUILLUS (RODENTIA: BATHYERGIDAE), A SEASONAL OR ASEASONAL BREEDER? by Hart, L., O'Riain, M. J., Jarvis, J. U M., Bennett, N. C.

“…The Cape dune mole-rat (Bathyergus suillus) is a solitary, seasonally breeding, rodent mole. Body mass, reproductive tract morphometrics, ovarian histology,…”
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Reproductive Suppression and Inbreeding Avoidance in Wild Populations of Co-Operatively Breeding Meerkats (Suricata suricatta) by O'Riain, M. J., Bennett, N. C., Brotherton, P. N. M., McIlrath, G., Clutton-Brock, T. H.

“…Meerkats live in co-operatively breeding familial groups in which reproduction is monopolised by a dominant pair of breeders. Offspring of the breeders are…”
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Size matters: genital allometry in an African mole-rat (Family: Bathyergidae) by Kinahan, A. A, Bennett, N. C, O'Riain, M. J, Hart, L, Bateman, P. W

“…Typically, sexually selected traits show positive allometry and high coefficients of variation (CV). To date, many studies on the allometry of genitalia have…”
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Neuroanatomical investigation of the gonadotrophin-releasing hormone 1 system in the seasonally breeding Cape dune mole-rat, Bathyergus suillus by Hart, Leanne, Bennett, Nigel C, Kalamatianos, Theodosis, Oosthuizen, Maria K, Jarvis, Jennifer U.M, O’Riain, M. Justin, Coen, Clive W

“…Abstract The gonadotrophin-releasing hormone 1 (GnRH1) system has been investigated immunohistochemically in Cape dune mole-rats ( Bathyergus suillus ),…”
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The Topography and Gross Anatomy of the Gastrointestinal Tract of the Cape Dune Mole-rat (Bathyergus suillus) by Kotze, S. H., Van Der Merwe, E. L, O'Riain, M. J.

“…Summary The Cape dune mole‐rat, Bathyergus suillus, is the largest truly subterranean rodent in the world and is restricted to sandy soil areas of the southern…”
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Large-scale salmon farming in Norway impacts the epiphytic community of Laminaria hyperborea by O’Riain, MJ, Armitage, CS, Kutti, T, Husa, V, Skogen, MD, Bekkby, T, Carvajalino-Fernández, MA, Bannister, RJ, White, CA, Norderhaug, KM, Fredriksen, S

“…Large-scale finfish farms are increasingly located in dispersive hard-bottom environments where Laminaria hyperborea forests dominate; however, the…”
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