Social genetic and social environment effects on parental and helper care in a cooperatively breeding bird
Adams MJ, Robinson MR, Mannarelli M-E, Hatchwell BJ. 2015. Social genetic and social environment effects on parental and helper care in a cooperatively breeding bird. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 282(1810), 20150689.
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Adams, Mark James;
Robinson, Matthew RichardISTA ;
Mannarelli, Maria-Elena;
Hatchwell, Ben J.
Abstract
Phenotypes expressed in a social context are not only a function of the individual, but can also be shaped by the phenotypes of social partners. These social effects may play a major role in the evolution of cooperative breeding if social partners differ in the quality of care they provide and if individual carers adjust their effort in relation to that of other carers. When applying social effects models to wild study systems, it is also important to explore sources of individual plasticity that could masquerade as social effects. We studied offspring provisioning rates of parents and helpers in a wild population of long-tailed tits Aegithalos caudatus using a quantitative genetic framework to identify these social effects and partition them into genetic, permanent environment and current environment components. Controlling for other effects, individuals were consistent in their provisioning effort at a given nest, but adjusted their effort based on who was in their social group, indicating the presence of social effects. However, these social effects differed between years and social contexts, indicating a current environment effect, rather than indicating a genetic or permanent environment effect. While this study reveals the importance of examining environmental and genetic sources of social effects, the framework we present is entirely general, enabling a greater understanding of potentially important social effects within any ecological population.
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2015-07-07
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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
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The Royal Society
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282
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1810
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20150689
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Adams MJ, Robinson MR, Mannarelli M-E, Hatchwell BJ. Social genetic and social environment effects on parental and helper care in a cooperatively breeding bird. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 2015;282(1810). doi:10.1098/rspb.2015.0689
Adams, M. J., Robinson, M. R., Mannarelli, M.-E., & Hatchwell, B. J. (2015). Social genetic and social environment effects on parental and helper care in a cooperatively breeding bird. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. The Royal Society. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.0689
Adams, Mark James, Matthew Richard Robinson, Maria-Elena Mannarelli, and Ben J. Hatchwell. “Social Genetic and Social Environment Effects on Parental and Helper Care in a Cooperatively Breeding Bird.” Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. The Royal Society, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.0689.
M. J. Adams, M. R. Robinson, M.-E. Mannarelli, and B. J. Hatchwell, “Social genetic and social environment effects on parental and helper care in a cooperatively breeding bird,” Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 282, no. 1810. The Royal Society, 2015.
Adams MJ, Robinson MR, Mannarelli M-E, Hatchwell BJ. 2015. Social genetic and social environment effects on parental and helper care in a cooperatively breeding bird. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 282(1810), 20150689.
Adams, Mark James, et al. “Social Genetic and Social Environment Effects on Parental and Helper Care in a Cooperatively Breeding Bird.” Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 282, no. 1810, 20150689, The Royal Society, 2015, doi:10.1098/rspb.2015.0689.
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