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Adjustment of costly extra-group paternity according to inbreeding risk in a cooperative mammal.
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- Fitness consequences of outgroup conflict.eLife · 2022Review
- Leaders of war: modelling the evolution of conflict among heterogeneous groups.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Article
- The dynamics of social cohesion in response to simulated intergroup conflict in banded mongooses.Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
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- Exploitative leaders incite intergroup warfare in a social mammal.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- Recent immigrants alter the quantitative genetic architecture of paternity in song sparrows.Evolution letters · 2020Article
- Relatedness and spatial distance modulate intergroup interactions: experimental evidence from a social rodent.Current zoology · 2019Article
- Which male and female characteristics influence the probability of extragroup paternities in rhesus macaques,Animal behaviour · 2018Article
- Kin discrimination via odour in the cooperatively breeding banded mongoose.Royal Society open science · 2018Article
- The role of extragroup encounters in a Neotropical, cooperative breeding primate, the common marmoset: a field playback experiment.Animal behaviour · 2018Article
- Timing as a sexually selected trait: the right mate at the right moment.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2017Review
- Inter-group associations in Mongolian gerbils: Quantitative evidence from social network analysis.Integrative zoology · 2017Article
- Pregnancy is detected via odour in a wild cooperative breeder.Biology letters · 2017Article
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Abstract
Females of many animal species seek mating opportunities with multiple males, despite being able to obtain sufficient sperm to father their offspring from a single male. In animals that live in stable social groups, females often choose to mate outside their group resulting in extra-group paternity (EGP). One reason proposed to explain female choice for extra-group males is to obtain compatible genes, for example, in order to avoid inbreeding depression in offspring. The benefits of such extra-group paternities could be substantial if they result in fitter, outbred offspring. However, avoiding inbreeding in this way could be costly for females, for example, through retaliation by cuckolded males or through receiving aggression while prospecting for extra-group mating opportunities. We investigate the costs and benefits of EGP in the banded mongoose
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