Reproductive suppression and inbreeding avoidance in wild populations of co-operatively breeding meerkats (Suricata suricatta)

By M. O'Riain, N. Bennett, P. Brotherton, G. Mcilrath, T. H. Clutton-Brock. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics

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A genetic analysis of breeding success in the cooperative meerkat (Suricata suricatta) (2003, background): “Genetic studies of avian species have also revealed that although the frequency of extrapair paternity is generally low (Cockburn, 1998), exceptions exist (e.g., in Seychelles warbler, Acrocephalus sechellensis [Richardson et al., 2001] and Australian fairy wrens [Brooker et al., 1990; Mulder et al”
Factors Affecting Reproduction and Mortality Among Baboons in the Okavango Delta, Botswana (2004, background): “Moreover, in more forested areas, crowned eagles (Stephanoaetus coronatus) regularly prey on red colobus (Piliocolobus tephrosceles badius), which are almost as large as baboons ( Mitani et al., 2001; Struhsaker, 1975).”
Trade-offs between extraterritorial prospecting and helping in a cooperative mammal (2005, methodology): “…constraints on subordinate reproduction (e.g. reproductive monopolies: Keller & Reeve 1994; or a lack of access to unrelated breeding partners: O’Riain et al. 2000), and longer-term fitness benefits by facilitating the assessment and seizure of dispersal opportunities (Waser 1996; Young 2003).”
Costs of infant carrying in common marmosets, Callithrix jacchus: an experimental analysis (2001, background): “There is a conflict over breeding opportunities between subdominant helpers and dominant breeders, the outcome of which seems to depend on the different costs and benefits both breeders and helpers experience, with infanticide (by both dominant and subdominant females), and temporary expulsion of su”