ArticlePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2020
Helping decisions and kin recognition in long-tailed tits: is call similarity used to direct help towards kin?
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- Multiple social encounters can eliminate Crozier's paradox and stabilise genetic kin recognition.Nature communications · 2022Article
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- Cost, risk, and avoidance of inbreeding in a cooperatively breeding bird.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- Signal detection, acceptance thresholds and the evolution of animal recognition systems.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Helping decisions and kin recognition in long-tailed tits: is call similarity used to direct help towards kin?Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020Article
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Abstract
Most cooperative breeders live in discrete family groups, but in a minority, breeding populations comprise extended social networks of conspecifics that vary in relatedness. Selection for effective kin recognition may be expected for more related individuals in such kin neighbourhoods to maximize indirect fitness. Using a long-term social pedigree, molecular genetics, field observations and acoustic analyses, we examine how vocal similarity affects helping decisions in the long-tailed tit
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