ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2017
Consistent cooperation in a cichlid fish is caused by maternal and developmental effects rather than heritable genetic variation.
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- Genetic variance and indirect genetic effects for affiliative social behavior in a wild primate.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2023Article
- Plasticity in social behaviour varies with reproductive status in an avian cooperative breeder.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Characterization of social behavior in the spiny mouse,Ethology : formerly Zeitschrift fur Tierpsychologie · 2022Article
- Age- and sex-dependent variation in relatedness corresponds to reproductive skew, territory inheritance, and workload in cooperatively breeding cichlids.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2021Article
- The call of the wild: using non-model systems to investigate microbiome-behaviour relationships.The Journal of experimental biology · 2021Review
- Prospects for sociogenomics in avian cooperative breeding and parental care.Current zoology · 2020Article
- Evolutionary genetics of personality in the Trinidadian guppy I: maternal and additive genetic effects across ontogeny.Heredity · 2019Article
- Evolutionary conserved neural signature of early life stress affects animal social competence.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2018Article
- Consistent cooperation in a cichlid fish is caused by maternal and developmental effects rather than heritable genetic variation.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2017Article
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Abstract
Studies on the evolution of cooperative behaviour are typically confined to understanding its adaptive value. It is equally essential, however, to understand its potential to evolve, requiring knowledge about the phenotypic consistency and genetic basis of cooperative behaviour. While previous observational studies reported considerably high heritabilities of helping behaviour in cooperatively breeding vertebrates, experimental studies disentangling the relevant genetic and non-genetic components of cooperative behaviour are lacking. In a half-sibling breeding experiment, we investigated the repeatability and heritability of three major helping behaviours performed by subordinates of the cooperatively breeding fish
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