Research Paper
2024
Behavioral fingerprinting of the naked mole-rat uncovers signatures of eusociality and social touch
Ryan Schwark, Simon Ogundare, Caleb Weinreb, Preston Sheng, William Foster, Andre Toussaint, Phalaen Chang, Yu-Young Wesley Tsai, Maximilian Comfere, Amanda Arnold, Antonella Guadagnino, Daniel McCloskey, Evan Schaffer, Kanaka Rajan, Sandeep Robert Datta, Ishmail Abdus-Saboor
Columbia University Zuckerman Mind, Brain, and Behavior Institute
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.21.581483
This paper presents a novel approach to evaluating and characterizing naked mole rat behavioral profiles and interactions. Personal contributions include developing transition matrices to evaluate and classify naked mole rats within the colony, their respective roles and castes