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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2025

Mate-switching is not associated with offspring fitness in a socially monogamous bird.

Frigg Speelman, Terence Burke, Jan Komdeur, David Richardson, Hannah L Dugdale

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Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Frigg SpeelmanSchool of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University Faculty of Science and Engineering, Macquarie Park, New South Wales, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-4768-6359
Terence BurkeSchool of Biosciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
Jan KomdeurBehavioural and Physiological Ecology, Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, Groningen, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-9241-0124
David RichardsonBiological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-7226-9074
Hannah L DugdaleBehavioural and Physiological Ecology, Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, Groningen, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-8769-0099

Funding

Lucie Burgers FoundationMacquarie UniversityNERCNetherlands Academy of Arts and SciencesNWORUGTOPUniversity of GroningenVICI
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In many species, individuals form socially monogamous pair-bonds lasting multiple breeding seasons, or even whole lifetimes. Studies often suggest social monogamy to be adaptive, but this is usually quantified through the survival and annual reproductive success of the partners. However, beyond the number of offspring produced, parental partnerships may also affect their offspring's phenotype, health and ultimately fitness. Using multigenerational data on the Seychelles warbler (

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Genetic FitnessPair BondSexual Behavior, AnimalSongbirdsAnimalsFemaleLongevityMaleReproductionSeychellesbody massdivorcehaematocritlifespanpair bondparental effectsreproductive successtelomere length

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PMID40425160
PMCPMC12115850

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