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| Title |
Kinship reduces alloparental care in cooperative cichlids where helpers pay-to-stay
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| Published in |
Nature Communications, January 2013
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| DOI | 10.1038/ncomms2344 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Markus Zöttl, Dik Heg, Noémie Chervet, Michael Taborsky |
| Abstract |
Alloparental brood care, where individuals help raising the offspring of others, is generally believed to be favoured by high degrees of relatedness between helpers and recipients. Here we show that in cooperatively breeding cichlids, unrelated subordinate females provide more alloparental care than related ones when kinship between dominant and subordinate group members is experimentally manipulated. In addition, unrelated helpers increased alloparental care after we simulated egg cannibalism by helpers, an effect not shown by related helpers. By supporting predictions of pay-to-stay theory, these results suggest that in Neolamprologus pulcher, reciprocal commodity trading is important for the decision of subordinates to invest in care of the dominants' offspring. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 169 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Switzerland | 5 | 3% |
| Germany | 2 | 1% |
| Netherlands | 2 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| India | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 155 | 92% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 33 | 20% |
| Student > Bachelor | 31 | 18% |
| Student > Master | 25 | 15% |
| Researcher | 22 | 13% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 10 | 6% |
| Other | 16 | 9% |
| Unknown | 32 | 19% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 95 | 56% |
| Environmental Science | 6 | 4% |
| Social Sciences | 6 | 4% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 5 | 3% |
| Psychology | 4 | 2% |
| Other | 11 | 7% |
| Unknown | 42 | 25% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 25 February 2015.
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