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Cooperative breeding and monogamy in mammalian societies [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2012 Comparative studies of social insects and birds show that the evolution of cooperative and eusocial breeding systems has been confined to species where females mate completely or almost exclusively with a single male, indicating that high levels of average kinship between group members are necessary for the evolution of reproductive altruism.
Dieter Lukas, Tim H Clutton-Brock
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Reproductive skew in cooperative breeding: Environmental variability, antagonistic selection, choice, and control [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2019 A multitude of factors may determine reproductive skew among cooperative breeders. One explanation, derived from inclusive fitness theory, is that groups can partition reproduction such that subordinates do at least as well as noncooperative solitary ...
Peter Nonacs
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Cooperative breeding in birds: the role of ecology [PDF]
Behavioral Ecology, 1999 Theory predicts that cooperative breeding should only occur in species in which certain individuals are constrained from breeding independently by some peculiarity of the species' ecology. Here, we use comparative methods to examine the role of variation in ecology in explaining differences between taxa in the frequency of cooperative breeding.
Arnold, K. E., Owens, I. P. F.
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Adult sex ratios and their implications for cooperative breeding in birds [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2017 Jan Komdeur +2 more
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Diversity of Ascomycota in Jilin: Introducing Novel Woody Litter Taxa in Cucurbitariaceae
Journal of Fungi, 2022 Cucurbitariaceae has a high biodiversity worldwide on various hosts and is distributed in tropical and temperate regions. Woody litters collected in Changchun, Jilin Province, China, revealed a distinct collection of fungi in the family Cucurbitariaceae ...
Wenxin Su +6 more
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Vigilance in a Cooperatively Breeding Primate [PDF]
International Journal of Primatology, 2010 Collective vigilance is considered a major advantage of group living in animals. We investigated vigilance behavior in wild mustached tamarins (Saguinus mystax), small, arboreal, cooperatively breeding New World primates that form stable mixed-species groups with saddleback tamarins (Saguinus fuscicollis).
Stojan-Dolar, Mojca, Heymann, Eckhard W.
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On the further integration of cooperative breeding and cooperation theory [PDF]
Behavioural Processes, 2007 We present a synopsis about the commentaries to the target article "Integrating cooperative breeding into theoretical concepts of cooperation", in which we attempted to integrate general mechanisms to explain cooperative behaviour among unrelated individuals with classic concepts to explain helping behaviour in cooperative breeders that do not invoke ...
Ralph, Bergmüller +3 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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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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Temporal variability and cooperative breeding: testing the bet-hedging hypothesis in the acorn woodpecker [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2015 Walter D Koenig, Eric L Walters
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