Evolution, 2003-09, Vol.57 (9), p.2191-2195
2003
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- Titel
- HERITABILITY OF PARENTAL EFFORT IN A PASSERINE BIRD
- Ist Teil von
- Evolution, 2003-09, Vol.57 (9), p.2191-2195
- Ort / Verlag
- United States: Society for the Study of Evolution
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2003
- Quelle
- Wiley Online Library - AutoHoldings Journals
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- The study of the evolution of parental care is central to our understanding of social systems, sexual selection, and interindividual conflict, yet we know virtually nothing about the genetic architecture of parental care traits in natural populations. In this paper, we use data from a long term field study of a passerine bird, the long-tailed tit (Aegithalos caudatus), to examine the heritability of the rate at which parents feed offspring. This measure of effort is positively related to offspring survival, is repeatable within individuals, and does not appear to be confounded by environmental effects. Using both parent-offspring regression, and an animal model approach, with a pedigree derived from ringing data, we show that our measure of effort has a significant heritable component.
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISSN: 0014-3820eISSN: 1558-5646DOI: 10.1554/02-685Titel-ID: cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_71325124
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- Additive genetic variance, Aegithalos caudatus, Animal behavior, animal model, Animal models, Animal nesting, Animal populations, Animals, Biological Evolution, Bird nesting, Birds, Breeding, BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS, cooperative breeding, Data analysis, Evolution, Evolutionary genetics, Genetics, Population, Heredity, Heritability, long-tailed tit, Maternal Behavior, Models, Biological, nestling provisioning, parental investment, Paternal Behavior, Pedigree, Phenotypic traits, Quantitative genetics, Regression Analysis, Selection, Genetic, Songbirds - genetics, Songbirds - physiology, Statistical variance, United Kingdom