ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2005
Does kin selection influence fostering behaviour in Antarctic fur seals (Arctocephalus gazella)?
Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- Sustainability in the laboratory: evaluating the reusability of microtitre plates for PCR and fragment detection.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- Little evidence of inbreeding depression for birth mass, survival and growth in Antarctic fur seal pups.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Intronic primers reveal unexpectedly high major histocompatibility complex diversity in Antarctic fur seals.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- An 85K SNP Array Uncovers Inbreeding and Cryptic Relatedness in an Antarctic Fur Seal Breeding Colony.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2020Article
- Chemical fingerprints reveal clues to identity, heterozygosity, and relatedness.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2015Article
- Chemical fingerprints encode mother-offspring similarity, colony membership, relatedness, and genetic quality in fur seals.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2015Article
- Cross-amplification and validation of SNPs conserved over 44 million years between seals and dogs.PloS one · 2013Article
- First evidence for adoption in California sea lions.PloS one · 2010Article
- Kin in space: social viscosity in a spatially and genetically substructured network.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2008Article
- Evolution and biodiversity of Antarctic organisms: a molecular perspective.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2007Article
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Abstract
A recent observation that female Antarctic fur seals foster pups born to related females raises the fascinating possibility that kin selection may promote altruistic behaviour even on a crowded breeding beach, where individual interactions are frequent and complex. However, the use of genetic markers to identify small numbers of unusually highly related individuals is fraught with difficulty due to the likely presence of genotyping errors and related problems. Consequently, we examined an enlarged dataset where errors had been reduced to an absolute minimum by a combination of close scrutiny and repeat genotyping. We find no support for the idea that females preferentially suckle pups born to female relatives. Instead, the previously reported pattern can be explained by a combination of genotyping errors and de novo mutations. Our study emphasizes the need for caution when interpreting rare events that occur at a rate approaching that expected for normal genotyping errors.
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