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Social Mating System and Sex-Biased Dispersal in Mammals and Birds: A Phylogenetic Analysis

The hypothesis that patterns of sex-biased dispersal are related to social mating system in mammals and birds has gained widespread acceptance over the past 30 years. However, two major complications have obscured the relationship between these two behaviors: 1) dispersal frequency and dispersal dis...

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Autores principales: Mabry, Karen E., Shelley, Erin L., Davis, Katie E., Blumstein, Daniel T., Van Vuren, Dirk H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3590276/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23483957
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0057980
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author Mabry, Karen E.
Shelley, Erin L.
Davis, Katie E.
Blumstein, Daniel T.
Van Vuren, Dirk H.
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description The hypothesis that patterns of sex-biased dispersal are related to social mating system in mammals and birds has gained widespread acceptance over the past 30 years. However, two major complications have obscured the relationship between these two behaviors: 1) dispersal frequency and dispersal distance, which measure different aspects of the dispersal process, have often been confounded, and 2) the relationship between mating system and sex-biased dispersal in these vertebrate groups has not been examined using modern phylogenetic comparative methods. Here, we present a phylogenetic analysis of the relationship between mating system and sex-biased dispersal in mammals and birds. Results indicate that the evolution of female-biased dispersal in mammals may be more likely on monogamous branches of the phylogeny, and that females may disperse farther than males in socially monogamous mammalian species. However, we found no support for a relationship between social mating system and sex-biased dispersal in birds when the effects of phylogeny are taken into consideration. We caution that although there are larger-scale behavioral differences in mating system and sex-biased dispersal between mammals and birds, mating system and sex-biased dispersal are far from perfectly associated within these taxa.
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spelling pubmed-35902762013-03-12 Social Mating System and Sex-Biased Dispersal in Mammals and Birds: A Phylogenetic Analysis Mabry, Karen E. Shelley, Erin L. Davis, Katie E. Blumstein, Daniel T. Van Vuren, Dirk H. PLoS One Research Article The hypothesis that patterns of sex-biased dispersal are related to social mating system in mammals and birds has gained widespread acceptance over the past 30 years. However, two major complications have obscured the relationship between these two behaviors: 1) dispersal frequency and dispersal distance, which measure different aspects of the dispersal process, have often been confounded, and 2) the relationship between mating system and sex-biased dispersal in these vertebrate groups has not been examined using modern phylogenetic comparative methods. Here, we present a phylogenetic analysis of the relationship between mating system and sex-biased dispersal in mammals and birds. Results indicate that the evolution of female-biased dispersal in mammals may be more likely on monogamous branches of the phylogeny, and that females may disperse farther than males in socially monogamous mammalian species. However, we found no support for a relationship between social mating system and sex-biased dispersal in birds when the effects of phylogeny are taken into consideration. We caution that although there are larger-scale behavioral differences in mating system and sex-biased dispersal between mammals and birds, mating system and sex-biased dispersal are far from perfectly associated within these taxa. Public Library of Science 2013-03-06 /pmc/articles/PMC3590276/ /pubmed/23483957 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0057980 Text en © 2013 Mabry et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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title_sort social mating system and sex-biased dispersal in mammals and birds: a phylogenetic analysis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3590276/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23483957
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0057980
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