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Occasional cooperative breeding in birds and the robustness of comparative analyses concerning the evolution of cooperative breeding. [PDF]

Zoological Lett, 2016
Cooperative breeding is a widespread and intense form of cooperation, in which individuals help raise offspring that are not their own. This behaviour is particularly well studied in birds, using both long-term and comparative studies that have provided insights into the evolution of reproductive altruism.
Griesser M, Suzuki TN.
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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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Infrequent Cooperative Breeding in a Short-Lived Migratory Songbird, the Wilson’s Warbler

Birds
Cooperative breeding, or helping behavior, has long been recognized in birds. An ignored dichotomy, however, separates the helping found in many individuals of some long-lived, sedentary species from the helping occasionally found in the territories of ...
William Gilbert
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An integrative, peer-reviewed and open-source cooperative-breeding database (Co-BreeD). [PDF]

J Anim Ecol
1. Large-scale, cross-species comparative analyses on cooperative breeding—where individuals care for the offspring of other group members—are important for understanding sociality and cooperation. However, the datasets that facilitate these analyses are
Ben Mocha Y, Woith M, Scemama de Gialluly S, Bruscagnin L, Kestel N, Markman S, Drobniak SM, Baglione V, Boersma J, Cousseau L, Covas R, Braga de Miranda GH, Dey CJ, Doutrelant C, Gula R, Heinsohn R, Keynan O, Kingma SA, Leitão AV, Li J, Makuya L, Middleton KM, Pruett-Jones S, Radford AN, Restrepo C, Rubenstein DR, Schradin C, Theuerkauf J, Warrington MH, Williams DA, Woxvold IA, Griesser M.   +31 more
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The evolution of cooperative breeding by direct and indirect fitness effects. [PDF]

Sci Adv, 2022
The evolution of cooperative breeding has been traditionally attributed to the effect of kin selection. While there is increasing empirical evidence that direct fitness benefits are relevant, the relative importance of alternative selection mechanisms is
García-Ruiz I, Quiñones A, Taborsky M.
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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, Rong Xu, Chitrabhanu S. Bhunjun, Shangqing Tian, Yueting Dai, Yu Li, Chayanard Phukhamsakda   +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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Reduction of Foraging Work and Cooperative Breeding

Acta Biotheoretica, 2014
Using simple stochastic models, we discuss how cooperative breeders, especially wasps and bees, can improve their productivity by reducing foraging work. In a harsh environment, where foraging is the main cause of mortality, such breeders achieve greater productivity by reducing their foraging effort below full capacity, and they may thrive by adopting
Hiroshi, Toyoizumi, Jeremy, Field
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Genomic Breeding Programs Realize Larger Benefits by Cooperation in the Presence of Genotype × Environment Interaction Than Conventional Breeding Programs

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, Huiming Liu, Han A. Mulder, Mark Henryon, Mark Henryon, Jørn Rind Thomasen, Morten Kargo, Morten Kargo, Anders Christian Sørensen   +8 more
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Genomic Features of Cladobotryum dendroides, Which Causes Cobweb Disease in Edible Mushrooms, and Identification of Genes Related to Pathogenicity and Mycoparasitism

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, Xiaochen Liu, Bing Peng, Peibin Liu, Zhuang Li, Yueting Dai, Shijun Xiao   +6 more
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