Implications Of Multiple Mating For Offspring Relatedness And Shoaling Behaviour In Juvenile Guppies
Main Category: VeterinaryAlso Included In: Biology / Biochemistry
Article Date: 04 Sep 2008 - 1:00 PDT
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In this paper we use guppies to show that differences in the level of relatedness between singly-sired broods (which are always full siblings) and multiply-sired broods (which can comprise either full- or half-siblings) can have important consequences for offspring social behaviour.
We found that full-siblings spent more time shoaling in close proximity than half-siblings, revealing an apparent innate ability of juvenile guppies to discriminate among brood mates according to their level of genetic similarity.
Shoaling, in turn, confers important antipredator, and potentially kin-selected, benefits. Our results therefore also point to a potential cost of polyandry: the reduced social cohesion of brood members with potentially important fitness implications
Royal Society journal Biology Letters
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