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The evolution of ageing in cooperative breeders
Evolution Letters, 2022 Cooperatively breeding animals live longer than their solitary counterparts. This has been suggested for birds, mole rats, and social insects. A common explanation for these long lifespans is that cooperative breeding evolves more readily in long‐lived ...
Jan J. Kreider +3 more
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Cooperative breeding and long-distance dispersal: a test using vagrant records. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Cooperative breeding is generally associated with increased philopatry and sedentariness, presumably because short-distance dispersal facilitates the maintenance of kin groups.
Caroline L Rusk +2 more
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Pathogens, 2020 Cladobotryum dendroides, which causes cobweb disease in edible mushrooms, is one of the major fungal pathogens. Our previous studies focused on the genetic and morphological characterization of this fungus, as well as its pathogenicity and the ...
Rong Xu +6 more
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Frontiers in Genetics, 2020 Genotype × environment interaction (G × E) is of increasing importance for dairy cattle breeders due to international multiple-environment selection of animals as well as the differentiation of production environments within countries.
Lu Cao +8 more
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Synopsis of Leptosphaeriaceae and Introduction of Three New Taxa and One New Record from China
Journal of Fungi, 2022 Leptosphaeriaceae, a diverse family in the order Pleosporales, is remarkable for its scleroplectenchymatous or plectenchymatous peridium cells. Four Leptosphaeriaceae species were discovered and studied during the investigation of saprobic fungi from ...
Rong Xu +7 more
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Dispersal costs set the scene for helping in an atypical avian cooperative breeder [PDF]
, 2001 The ecological constraints hypothesis is suggested to explain the evolution of cooperative breeding in birds. This hypothesis predicts that the scene for cooperative breeding is set when ecological factors constrain offspring from dispersal.
Russell, A.F.
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Cortisol levels are positively associated with pup-feeding rates in male meerkats [PDF]
, 1980 In societies of cooperative vertebrates, individual differences in contributions to offspring care are commonly substantial. Recent attempts to explain the causes of this variation have focused on correlations between contributions to care and the ...
Carlson, A.A. +6 more
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Experimental evidence for kin-biased helping in a cooperatively breeding vertebrate [PDF]
, 2001 The widespread belief that kin selection is necessary for the evolution of cooperative breeding in vertebrates has recently been questioned. These doubts have primarily arisen because of the paucity of unequivocal evidence for kin preferences in ...
Andrew F. Russell +2 more
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Cooperation theory of cooperative breeding [PDF]
Behavioural Processes, 2007 Cooperative breeding is the joint raising of offspring by wo or more individuals, where at least one of them is not he genetic parent of the young. The key characteristics of ooperative breeding systems are diversity of social behaviours ithin and between groups and high variation of factors influncing conflict over reproduction (for review see Komdeur,
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Integrating cooperative breeding into theoretical concepts of cooperation [PDF]
Behavioural Processes, 2007 In cooperative breeding systems, some individuals help to raise offspring that are not their own. While early explanations for such altruistic behaviour were predominantly based on kin selection, recent evidence suggests that direct benefits may be important in the maintenance of cooperation.
Bergmüller, Ralph +3 more
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