ArticleCurrent zoology2022
The benefits of being dominant: health correlates of male social rank and age in a marmot.
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- Dopaminergic neurons in the dorsal raphe nucleus may modulate social dominance in mice.Zoological research · 2025Article
- Facial and genital color ornamentation, testosterone, and reproductive output in high-ranking male rhesus macaques.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Dopamine D2 receptors in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex modulate social hierarchy in male mice.Current zoology · 2023Article
- Toward an evolutionary ecology of (in)equality.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Assessing stress physiology within a conservation breeding program for an endangered species.Conservation physiology · 2023Article
- Multifaceted Interplay among Social Dominance, Body Condition, Appetitive and Consummatory Sexual Behaviors, and Semen Quality in Dorper Rams during Out-Of-Season and Transition Periods.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- Low heritability and high phenotypic plasticity of salivary cortisol in response to environmental heterogeneity in a wild pinniped.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
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Abstract
The benefits of dominance may not come without costs, particularly for males. For example, the "immunocompetence handicap hypothesis" states that males with enhanced mating success allocate resources to enhance reproductive output at a cost to their current health, whereas the "resource quality hypothesis" predicts that high-ranking males may benefit from increased reproduction and good health. Whereas the predictions from each have been well tested in captive animals and in a variety of highly social primates, fewer studies have been carried out in free-living, facultatively social animals. Using adult male yellow-bellied marmots (
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