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Sperm structure and motility in the eusocial naked mole-rat, Heterocephalus glaber: a case of degenerative orthogenesis in the absence of sperm competition?

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Ecology and Evolution, December 2011
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
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  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (72nd percentile)

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Title
Sperm structure and motility in the eusocial naked mole-rat, Heterocephalus glaber: a case of degenerative orthogenesis in the absence of sperm competition?
Published in
BMC Ecology and Evolution, December 2011
DOI 10.1186/1471-2148-11-351
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Authors

Gerhard van der Horst, Liana Maree, Sanet H Kotzé, M Justin O'Riain

Abstract

We have studied sperm structure and motility in a eusocial rodent where reproduction is typically restricted to a single male and behaviourally dominant queen. Males rarely compete for access to the queen during her estrus cycle, suggesting little or no role for sperm competition.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
South Africa 1 1%
India 1 1%
Czechia 1 1%
Denmark 1 1%
Romania 1 1%
Unknown 66 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 17 24%
Researcher 13 18%
Student > Master 8 11%
Student > Bachelor 8 11%
Professor > Associate Professor 7 10%
Other 12 17%
Unknown 6 8%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 40 56%
Medicine and Dentistry 5 7%
Environmental Science 4 6%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 6%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 1 1%
Other 2 3%
Unknown 15 21%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 28 August 2013.
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#2,632,620
of 25,373,627 outputs
Outputs from BMC Ecology and Evolution
#690
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#18,665
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Ecology and Evolution
#12
of 43 outputs
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