ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2016
A reduced propensity to cooperate under enhanced exploitation risk in a social mammal.
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- All the Pups We Cannot See: Cannibalism Masks Perinatal Death in Laboratory Mouse Breeding but Infanticide Is Rare.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Article
- Evolution of strategic cooperation.Evolution letters · 2020Article
- Steroid hormones in hair reveal sexual maturity and competition in wild house mice (Mus musculus domesticus).Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Female nursing partner choice in a population of wild house mice (Frontiers in zoology · 2018Article
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Abstract
Conditional adjustment of cooperativeness to the expected pay-off might be a useful strategy to avoid being exploited in public good situations. Parental care provided towards all offspring in a communal nest (containing offspring of several females) resembles a public good. Females indiscriminately caring for all young share the costs equally, but the pay-off may vary depending on their contribution to the joint nest (number of own offspring). Females with fewer offspring in the joint nest will be exploited and overinvest relative to their contribution. We experimentally created a situation of high conflict in communally nursing house mice, by using a genetic tool to create a difference in birth litter sizes. Females in the high conflict situation (unequal litter sizes at birth) showed a reduced propensity to give birth as part of a communal nest, therefore adjusting their cooperativeness to the circumstances.
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