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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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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 ...
Bergmüller R +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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Promiscuity and the evolution of cooperative breeding [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2011 Empirical data suggest that low levels of promiscuity have played a key role in the evolution of cooperative breeding and eusociality. However, from a theoretical perspective, low levels of promiscuity can favour dispersal away from the natal patch, and have been argued to select against cooperation in a way that cannot be explained by inclusive ...
H. C. Leggett +3 more
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Cooperative Breeding: A Question of Climate? [PDF]
Current Biology, 2011 In some species, including humans, parents receive help with offspring care. A new comparative study suggests that birds breed cooperatively when environmental conditions vary. Further empirical and theoretical work will be required to understand the evolutionary significance of this insight.
Cockburn, Andrew, Russell, Andrew F.
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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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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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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 The social mole-rats of the family Bathyergidae show elaborate social organisation that may include division of labour between breeders and non-breeders as well as across non-breeders within their groups.
Markus Zöttl +6 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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Multiple benefits of alloparental care in a fluctuating environment [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2018 Although cooperatively breeding vertebrates occur disproportionately in unpredictable environments, the underlying mechanism shaping this biogeographic pattern remains unclear.
Sarah Guindre-Parker +1 more
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