Title |
Paternity of Subordinates Raises Cooperative Effort in Cichlids
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Published in |
PLOS ONE, October 2011
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DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0025673 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Rick Bruintjes, Danielle Bonfils, Dik Heg, Michael Taborsky |
Abstract |
In cooperative breeders, subordinates generally help a dominant breeding pair to raise offspring. Parentage studies have shown that in several species subordinates can participate in reproduction. This suggests an important role of direct fitness benefits for cooperation, particularly where groups contain unrelated subordinates. In this situation parentage should influence levels of cooperation. Here we combine parentage analyses and detailed behavioural observations in the field to study whether in the highly social cichlid Neolamprologus pulcher subordinates participate in reproduction and if so, whether and how this affects their cooperative care, controlling for the effect of kinship. |
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