Space Daily August 24, 2026 • 21:30

A naked mole-rat queen uses a chemical also found in skincare products to keep every other female infertile — and when scientists removed the queen but kept adding her scent, the colony remained calm and no successor took the throne - Space Daily

A queen-enriched ester altered fertility hormones, prevented pregnancies in isolated pairs and held one queenless colony stable until researchers withdrew it.

The strangest part of a naked mole-rat monarchy is not that one female breeds. It is that scores of other females, each carrying the same basic reproductive machinery, usually do not.
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A naked mole-rat queen uses a chemical also found in skincare products to keep every other female infertile — and when scientists removed the queen but kept adding her scent, the colony remained calm and no successor took the throne - Space Daily

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