ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2015
The evolution of parental cooperation in birds.
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- Biparental incubation behaviour under temperature extremes in sandbank nesting black skimmers.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Sex differences in avian parental care patterns vary across the breeding cycle.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Repeatable negotiation rules? Only females show repeatable responses to partner removal in a brood-provisioning songbird.Biology letters · 2023Article
- Compensatory enhancement of paternal care in maternally neglected mice family.Animal cells and systems · 2023Article
- The evolution of parental care in salamanders.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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- Characterization of social behavior in the spiny mouse,Ethology : formerly Zeitschrift fur Tierpsychologie · 2022Article
- Constrained flexibility of parental cooperation limits adaptive responses to harsh conditions.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2021Article
- Determining the level of extra-pair paternity in yellow-bellied prinias, a socially monogamous passerine.Zoological research · 2021Article
- Accelerated evolution of an Lhx2 enhancer shapes mammalian social hierarchies.Cell research · 2020Article
- Testing predictions of inclusive fitness theory in inbreeding relatives with biparental care.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
- The evolution of parental care diversity in amphibians.Nature communications · 2019Article
- Evolution of female promiscuity in Passerides songbirds.BMC evolutionary biology · 2019Article
- Parental care and the evolution of terrestriality in frogs.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Sex ratios and bimaturism differ between temperature-dependent and genetic sex-determination systems in reptiles.BMC evolutionary biology · 2019Article
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Abstract
Parental care is one of the most variable social behaviors and it is an excellent model system to understand cooperation between unrelated individuals. Three major hypotheses have been proposed to explain the extent of parental cooperation: sexual selection, social environment, and environmental harshness. Using the most comprehensive dataset on parental care that includes 659 bird species from 113 families covering both uniparental and biparental taxa, we show that the degree of parental cooperation is associated with both sexual selection and social environment. Consistent with recent theoretical models parental cooperation decreases with the intensity of sexual selection and with skewed adult sex ratios. These effects are additive and robust to the influence of life-history variables. However, parental cooperation is unrelated to environmental factors (measured at the scale of whole species ranges) as indicated by a lack of consistent relationship with ambient temperature, rainfall or their fluctuations within and between years. These results highlight the significance of social effects for parental cooperation and suggest that several parental strategies may coexist in a given set of ambient environment.
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