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Family aggression in a social lizard
The evolution of family living is underpinned by conflict and cooperation between family members. While family groups can be maintained by reducing conflict between parents and offspring, interactions between siblings may play an equally important role. Here, we compared the level of aggressive inte...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5471180/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28615643 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-03531-0 |
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author | Botterill-James, Thomas Halliwell, Ben McKeown, Simon Sillince, Jacinta Uller, Tobias Wapstra, Erik While, Geoffrey M. |
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description | The evolution of family living is underpinned by conflict and cooperation between family members. While family groups can be maintained by reducing conflict between parents and offspring, interactions between siblings may play an equally important role. Here, we compared the level of aggressive interactions between siblings to that between parents and their offspring in the family living skink Liopholis whitii. Aggressive interactions occurred much more frequently between siblings and between fathers and offspring than between mothers and their offspring. These results suggest that ecological and social conditions that reduce conflict between siblings and between males and offspring will be fundamental in the evolutionary maintenance and diversification of family living in these lizards. |
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spelling | pubmed-54711802017-06-19 Family aggression in a social lizard Botterill-James, Thomas Halliwell, Ben McKeown, Simon Sillince, Jacinta Uller, Tobias Wapstra, Erik While, Geoffrey M. Sci Rep Article The evolution of family living is underpinned by conflict and cooperation between family members. While family groups can be maintained by reducing conflict between parents and offspring, interactions between siblings may play an equally important role. Here, we compared the level of aggressive interactions between siblings to that between parents and their offspring in the family living skink Liopholis whitii. Aggressive interactions occurred much more frequently between siblings and between fathers and offspring than between mothers and their offspring. These results suggest that ecological and social conditions that reduce conflict between siblings and between males and offspring will be fundamental in the evolutionary maintenance and diversification of family living in these lizards. Nature Publishing Group UK 2017-06-14 /pmc/articles/PMC5471180/ /pubmed/28615643 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-03531-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Botterill-James, Thomas Halliwell, Ben McKeown, Simon Sillince, Jacinta Uller, Tobias Wapstra, Erik While, Geoffrey M. Family aggression in a social lizard |
title | Family aggression in a social lizard |
title_full | Family aggression in a social lizard |
title_fullStr | Family aggression in a social lizard |
title_full_unstemmed | Family aggression in a social lizard |
title_short | Family aggression in a social lizard |
title_sort | family aggression in a social lizard |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5471180/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28615643 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-03531-0 |
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