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Clutton-Brock, Tim H.; Hodge, Sarah J.; Flower, Tom P. (Thomas Patrick); Spong, Goran F.; Young, Andrew J. (University of Chicago Press, 2010-11)Attempts to account for observed variation in the degree of reproductive skew among cooperative breeders have usually assumed that subordinate breeding has fitness costs to dominant females. They argue that dominant ...
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Zottl, Markus; Vullioud, Philippe; Goddard, Katy; Torrents-Tico, Miquel; Gaynor, David; Bennett, Nigel Charles; Clutton-Brock, Tim H. (Elsevier, 2018-09)In Damaraland mole-rats (Fukomys damarensis), non-breeding subordinates contribute to the care of offspring born to the breeding pair in their group by carrying and retrieving young to the nest. In social mole-rats and ...
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Houslay, Thomas M.; Vullioud, Philippe; Zottl, Markus; Clutton-Brock, Tim H. (Oxford University Press, 2020-05)Although the social mole-rats are commonly classified as eusocial breeders on the grounds that groups include a single breeding female (the “queen”) and a number of nonbreeding individuals (“helpers”) of both sexes, ...
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DelBarco-Trillo, Javier; Greene, Lydia K.; Goncalves, Ines Braga; Fenkes, M.; Wisse, Jillian H.; Drewe, J.A.; Manser, Marta B.; Clutton-Brock, Tim H.; Drea, Christine M. (Elsevier, 2016-02)Inmale vertebrates, androgens are inextricably linked to reproduction, social dominance, and aggression, often at the cost of paternal investment or prosociality. Testosterone is invoked to explain rank-related reproductive ...
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Francioli, Yannick; Thorley, Jack; Finn, Kyle T.; Clutton-Brock, Tim H.; Zottl, Markus (Royal Society, 2020-10)Eusocial societies are characterized by a clear division of labour between non-breeding workers and breeding queens, and queens often do not contribute to foraging, defence and other maintenance tasks. It has been suggested ...
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Strandburg-Peshkin, Ariana; Clutton-Brock, Tim H.; Manser, Marta B. (Oxford University Press, 2020-03)Choosing suitable sleeping sites is a common challenge faced by animals across a range of taxa, with important implications for the space usage patterns of individuals, groups, and ultimately populations. A range of factors ...
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Patterson, Stuart J.; Clarke, Charlene; Clutton-Brock, Tim H.; Miller, Michele A.; Parsons, Sven D. C.; Pfeiffer, Dirk U.; Vergne, Timothee; Drewe, Julian A. (MDPI, 2021-12-04)Diagnostic tests are used to classify individual animals’ infection statuses. However, validating test performance in wild animals without gold standard tests is extremely challenging, and the issue is further complicated ...
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Houslay, Thomas M.; Nielsen, Johanna F.; Clutton-Brock, Tim H. (Wiley, 2021-12)The evolution of cooperative behavior is a major area of research among evolutionary biologists and behavioral ecologists, yet there are few estimates of its heritability or its evolutionary potential, and long-term studies ...
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Maag, Nino; Cozzi, Gabriele; Bateman, Andrew; Heistermann, Michael; Ganswindt, Andre; Manser, Marta B.; Clutton-Brock, Tim H.; Ozgul, Arpat (The Royal Society, 2019-02)Dispersal is a key process influencing the dynamics of socially and spatially structured populations. Dispersal success is determined by the state of individuals at emigration and the costs incurred after emigration. ...
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Duncan, Chris; Manser, Marta B.; Clutton-Brock, Tim H. (Wiley Open Access, 2021-11)In many social vertebrates, variation in group persistence exerts an important effect on individual fitness and population demography. However, few studies have been able to investigate the failure of groups or the causes ...
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Conquet, Eva; Ozgul, Arpat; Blumstein, Daniel T.; Armitage, Kenneth B.; Oli, Madan K.; Martin, Julien G.A.; Clutton-Brock, Tim H.; Paniw, Maria (Wiley, 2023-03)The fate of natural populations is mediated by complex interactions among vital rates, which can vary within and among years. Although the effects of random, among-year variation in vital rates have been studied extensively, ...
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Thavarajah, Natan K.; Fenkes, M.; Clutton-Brock, Tim H. (Brill Academic Publishers, 2014-01)In cooperatively breeding species with high reproductive skew, a single breeding female is dominant to all other group members, but it is not yet known if there are consistent dominance relationships among subordinates. ...
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Hodge, Sarah J.; Manica, Andrea; Flower, Tom P. (Thomas Patrick); Clutton-Brock, Tim H. (Blackwell, 2008)In cooperative societies with high reproductive skew, selection on females is likely to operate principally through variation in the probability of acquiring dominant status and variation in reproductive success while ...
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Dantzer, Ben; Dubuc, Constance; Goncalves, Ines Braga; Cram, Dominic L.; Bennett, Nigel Charles; Ganswindt, Andre; Heistermann, Michael; Duncan, Chris; Gaynor, David; Clutton-Brock, Tim H. (Royal Society, 2019-02)The phenotype of parents can have long-lasting effects on the development of offspring as well as on their behaviour, physiology and morphology as adults. In some cases, these changes may increase offspring fitness but, ...
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Maag, Nino; Paniw, Maria; Cozzi, Gabriele; Manser, Marta B.; Clutton-Brock, Tim H.; Ozgul, Arpat (University of Chicago Press, 2022-05)In most socially structured populations, the formation of new groups depends on the survival and reproduction of dispersing individuals. Quantifying vital rates in dispersers, however, is difficult because of the logistic ...
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Maag, Nino; Cozzi, Gabriele; Seager, David; Manser, Marta B.; Sickmueller, Anna; Hildebrandt, Thomas B.; Clutton-Brock, Tim H.; Ozgul, Arpat (Royal Society Publishing, 2023-06)In the majority of mammals, gestation length is relatively consistent and seldom varies by more than 3%. In a few species, females can adjust gestation length by delaying the development of the embryo after implantation. ...
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Risely, Alice; Wilhelm, Kerstin; Clutton-Brock, Tim H.; Manser, Marta B.; Sommer, Simone (Nature Research, 2021-10)Circadian rhythms in gut microbiota composition are crucial for metabolic function, yet the extent to which they govern microbial dynamics compared to seasonal and lifetime processes remains unknown. Here, we investigate ...
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Duncan, Chris; Thorley, Jack; Manser, Marta B.; Clutton-Brock, Tim H. (Oxford University Press, 2023-11)In many social species, both the acquisition of dominance and the duration that individuals maintain their status are important determinants of breeding tenure and lifetime reproductive success. However, few studies have ...
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Van de Ven, Tanja M.F.N.; Fuller, Andrea; Clutton-Brock, Tim H. (Wiley, 2020-01)Please read abstract in the article.
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Zottl, Markus; Lienert, Raphaela; Clutton-Brock, Tim H.; Millesi, Eva; Manser, Marta B. (Oxford University Press, 2013)Behavioral responses of animals to direct predator cues (DPC; e. g. urine) are common and may improve their survival. We investigated wild meerkat (Suricata suricatta) responses to DPCs by taking an experimental approach. ...
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