ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2008
Kin in space: social viscosity in a spatially and genetically substructured network.
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- Benefits of living closer to kin vary by genealogical relationship in a territorial mammal.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Population Genetics and Phylogeography of Galapagos Fur Seals.Frontiers in genetics · 2022Article
- A Camera-Trap Home-Range Analysis of the Indian Leopard (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2020Article
- Partner choice correlates with fine scale kin structuring in the paper wasp Polistes dominula.PloS one · 2019Article
- Split between two worlds: automated sensing reveals links between above- and belowground social networks in a free-living mammal.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2018Article
- The effect of relatedness and pack size on territory overlap in African wild dogs.Movement ecology · 2017Article
- Group structure predicts variation in proximity relationships between male-female and male-infant pairs of mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei).Primates; journal of primatology · 2016Article
- Chemical fingerprints reveal clues to identity, heterozygosity, and relatedness.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2015Article
- Cooperative investment in public goods is kin directed in communal nests of social birds.Ecology letters · 2014Article
- Long-lasting, kin-directed female interactions in a spatially structured wild boar social network.PloS one · 2014Article
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- Networks and the ecology of parasite transmission: A framework for wildlife parasitology.International journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife · 2013Review
- Sexual networks: measuring sexual selection in structured, polyandrous populations.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2013Article
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- Tracing early stages of species differentiation: ecological, morphological and genetic divergence of Galápagos sea lion populations.BMC evolutionary biology · 2008Article
- Wherever I may roam: social viscosity and kin affiliation in a wild population despite natal dispersal.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
Population substructuring is a fundamental aspect of animal societies. A growing number of theoretical studies recognize that who-meets-whom is not random, but rather determined by spatial relationships or illustrated by social networks. Structural properties of large highly dynamic social systems are notoriously difficult to unravel. Network approaches provide powerful ways to analyse the intricate relationships between social behaviour, dispersal strategies and genetic structure. Applying network analytical tools to a colony of the highly gregarious Galápagos sea lion (Zalophus wollebaeki), we find several genetic clusters that correspond to spatially determined 'network communities'. Overall relatedness was low, and genetic structure in the network can be interpreted as an emergent property of philopatry and seems not to be primarily driven by targeted interactions among highly related individuals in family groups. Nevertheless, social relationships between directly adjacent individuals in the network were stronger among genetically more similar individuals. Taken together, these results suggest that even small differences in the degree of relatedness can influence behavioural decisions. This raises the fascinating prospect that kin selection may also apply to low levels of relatedness within densely packed animal groups where less obvious co-operative interactions such as increased tolerance and stress reduction are important.
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