Significance of social parameters on differential nutrient investment in guira cuckoo, Guira guira, eggs

Macêdo, Regina H.; Cariello, Mariana O.; Pacheco, Angela M.; Schwabl, Hubert

doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2003.09.017

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“…This increased statistical power for parentage studies would prove very useful in studies of jointnesting, extra-pair mating, or intra-specific brood parasitic species. In joint-nesting species, egg swabbing could help in assigning egg ownership to the laying female and therefore provide data to better understand female competition through egg-laying, tossing, and/or burying (Quinn and Startek-foote 2000;Macedo et al 2004). This new egg-swab method represents a potential improvement over the Cariello et al (2002) method in which egg maternity was assigned using variable maternal egg yolk protein patterns, requiring destructive sampling of egg or egg puncturing that may affect egg viability.…”

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Non-destructive sampling of maternal DNA from the external shell of bird eggs

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The use of non-destructive sampling methods to collect genetic material from wildlife allows researchers to minimize disturbance. Most avian studies employ capturing and handling of young and parents to draw blood for DNA analysis. In some cases adult female birds are difficult to catch, so maternal genotyping has required collection of contour feathers from nests, or destructive sampling of eggs. Many species do not leave contour feathers in the nest, and destructive sampling has been unreliable due to contamination with embryonic DNA. Alternative field sampling techniques for collection of maternal DNA from birds are therefore desirable. Here we demonstrate that avian maternal DNA can be isolated in a non-invasive and non-destructive way from the external surface of eggs. We used cotton swabs to collect maternal DNA from the external shells of herring gull (Larus argentatus) and Caspian tern (Sterna caspia) eggs. DNA was then amplified by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for microsatellite genotyping. We verified that the DNA samples were maternal by comparing microsatellite profiles to those obtained from adults and chicks from the same nests. In 100% of Caspian tern (n=16) and herring gull families (n=12), the egg swabs that amplified matched the maternal microsatellite genotype. In a screening of many nests of both species, we successfully amplified microsatellite markers from 101/115 (88%) egg swabs. Swabs from eggs with blood stains on the shell were more likely to amplify successfully than those from clean eggs. The advantages of this new method include increased parentage assignment/exclusion power, and increased availability of maternal DNA for genotyping of species that do not deposit contour feathers in nests.

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Non-destructive sampling of maternal DNA from the external shell of bird eggs

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“…A common and widespread species, occurring from Amapá, northern Brazil, to southern Argentina, except forested areas, although its range has increased due to deforestation (Sick 1997, Erritzøe et al 2012, Payne & Kirwan 2020. Because of the species' interesting social behaviours, many authors have studied its reproduction, both outside (Serié 1923a,b, Friedmann 1927, Smyth 1928, Pereyra 1935, Davis 1940a, Skutch 1966, Azategui 1975, Wilson 1977, Board & Perrott 1979, Salvador 1981, Martella et al 1985, Jenny 1997, Azpiroz 2001, Voyles & Schmit 2004, Di Giacomo 2005, Darrieu et al 2010, Hayes 2014 and in Brazil, especially central Brazil by Regina Macedo and collaborators (Euler 1900, Ihering 1900, Dias da Rocha 1911, Santos 1938, Belton 1984, Cavalcanti et al 1991, Macedo 1992, 1994, 2015, Quinn et al 1994, Sick 1997, Macedo & Bianchi 1997a,b, Melo & Macedo 1997, Macedo & Melo 1999, Cariello et al 2002, Macedo et al 2004a,b, Lima et al 2011, Almeida et al 2012, Tubelis & Sazima 2021.…”

Section: Guira Cuckoo Guira Guiramentioning

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“…1994, Sick 1997, Macedo & Bianchi 1997a,b, Melo & Macedo 1997, Macedo & Melo 1999, Cariello et al . 2002, 2006, Macedo et al . 2004a,b, Lima et al .…”

Section: Guira Cuckoo Guira Guiramentioning

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New breeding information on Brazilian birds. 2: Columbidae and Cuculidae

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Crozariol

2023

Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club

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“…Pair bonds are less obvious in smooth‐billed anis and lacking in guira cuckoos, and genetic mating patterns range from monogamy to polygynandry (Blanchard, 2000; Lima et al., 2011). Egg ejection and egg burial (in the smooth‐billed ani) are most common at the beginning of the laying period, but often persist throughout the laying period and even into incubation, increasing the costs of reproductive competition and the odds of nest failure (Macedo et al., 2004; Schmaltz et al., 2008). In the guira cuckoo, infanticide of nestlings is also an important cause of nestling mortality.…”

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Evolutionary origins of cooperative and communal breeding: Lessons from the crotophagine cuckoos

Riehl

2021

Ethology

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Cooperatively breeding animals live in social groups in which some individuals help to raise the offspring of others. In many species, cooperative breeding occurs in family groups in which a single breeding pair is assisted by one or more non-reproductive "helpers," who are typically related to the brood that they help to rear (Koenig & Dickinson, 2004;Skutch, 1935). In other species, several adults contribute offspring to a shared brood and cooperatively provide parental care (typically referred to as "communal" breeders to distinguish them from cooperative species with non-reproductive

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Significance of social parameters on differential nutrient investment in guira cuckoo, Guira guira, eggs

Cited by 18 publications

References 35 publications

Non-destructive sampling of maternal DNA from the external shell of bird eggs

Non-destructive sampling of maternal DNA from the external shell of bird eggs

New breeding information on Brazilian birds. 2: Columbidae and Cuculidae

Evolutionary origins of cooperative and communal breeding: Lessons from the crotophagine cuckoos

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