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ArticleBehavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology

Coercion promotes alloparental care in cooperative breeders.

Markus Zöttl, Tanja Schreier, Michael Taborsky

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Article in Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Division of labour as key driver of social evolution.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
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  3. The evolution of division of labour: preconditions and evolutionary feedback.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
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  6. Coercion promotes alloparental care in cooperative breeders.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Markus ZöttlDivision of Behavioural Ecology, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, CH-3032 Hinterkappelen, Switzerland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5582-2306
Tanja SchreierDivision of Behavioural Ecology, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, CH-3032 Hinterkappelen, Switzerland.
Michael TaborskyDivision of Behavioural Ecology, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, CH-3032 Hinterkappelen, Switzerland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1357-4316

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Members of social groups may negotiate among each other about the exchange of goods and services. If this involves asymmetries between interacting partners, for instance in condition, power, or expected payoffs, coercion may be involved in the bargain. Cooperative breeders are excellent models to study such interactions, because asymmetries are inherent in the relationship between dominant breeders and subordinate helpers. Currently it is unclear whether punishment is used to enforce costly cooperation in such systems. Here we investigated experimentally in the cooperatively breeding cichlid

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coercioncooperative breedingnegotiationNeolamprologus pulcherpay-to-staypunishment

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PMID37192918
PMCPMC10183202

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