Topic: Naked mole rats

Naked mole rats are highly vocal eusocial mammals, that rely heavily on vocal communication to form and maintain social groups. We are interested in researching how vocal development genes and neurogenesis markers are expressed in the naked mole rat brain at different developmental timepoints. Here we report preliminary data on immunohistochemical characterization of cortical expression of FOXP2 and Doublecortin in the naked mole rat brain. FOXP2, forkhead-box protein P2, is a transcription factor associated with speech and language. Doublecortin is a neurogenesis marker that shows newly gener