Sociality in Fishes

Taborsky, Michael; Wong, Marian Y. L.

doi:10.1017/9781107338319.013

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“…Great advances in the field have been made through comparative work (Brockmann, 1997;Arnold and Owens, 1998;Clutton-Brock, 2002;Taborsky and Wong, 2017) and fine scale observational (Rowley and Russell, 1990;Schradin and Pillay, 2005) and manipulative studies (Komdeur, 1992;Riechert and Jones, 2008;Heg et al, 2011), although each method has its limitations and taxonomic biases. Comparative analyses have proven useful for studying evolutionary questions especially when combined with molecular phylogenetic tools as they are able to reveal patterns across multiple species and lineages (e.g., Edwards and Naeem, 1993;Arnold and Owens, 1998;Cockburn, 2006).…”

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“…Overall, hypotheses for social evolution have been less extensively studied in marine taxa. While cooperative rearing of young has not been observed in marine fish, there are group living species which are typically comprised of unrelated individuals and often a monogamous breeding pair with a number of non-breeding subordinates (Taborsky and Wong, 2017). These groups bear many resemblances to cooperative breeding birds and mammals and cooperative breeding theories have proven successful in explaining the evolution and maintenance of these social systems (Buston and Balshine, 2007;Wong, 2010;Wong and Buston, 2013).…”

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“…The animal kingdom contains many examples of species, including our own, which form surprisingly complex social structures Purcell, 2011;Grueter et al, 2012;Chapais, 2013;Johnson et al, 2013;Taborsky and Wong, 2017). The size, structure and composition of these groups can vary both within and between species, from pair-bonding monogamous partners (Kleiman, 2011;Servedio et al, 2013) to large and highly complex societies exhibiting social hierarchies and division of labor (Duffy and Macdonald, 2010;Nandi et al, 2013).…”

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The Right Tools for the Job: Cooperative Breeding Theory and an Evaluation of the Methodological Approaches to Understanding the Evolution and Maintenance of Sociality

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Why do we observe so many examples in nature in which individuals routinely delay or completely forgo their own reproductive opportunities in order to join and remain within a group? Cooperative breeding theory provides a rich framework with which to study the factors that may influence the costs and benefits of remaining philopatric as a non-breeder. This is often viewed as an initial step in the development of costly helping behavior provided by non-breeding subordinates. Despite many excellent empirical studies testing key concepts of the theory, there is still debate regarding the relative importance of various evolutionary forces, suggesting that there may not be a general explanation but rather a dynamic and taxonomically varied combination of factors influencing the evolution and maintenance of sociality. Here, we explore two potential improvements in the study of sociality that could aid in the progress of this field. The first addresses the fact that empirical studies of social evolution are typically conducted using either comparative, observational or manipulative methodologies. Instead, we suggest a holistic approach, whereby observational and experimental studies are designed with the explicit view of advancing comparative analyses of sociality for the taxon, and in tandem, where comparative work informs targeted research effort on specific (usually understudied) species within the lineage. A second improvement relates to the broadening of tests of cooperative breeding theory to include taxa where subordinates do not necessarily provide active cooperation within the group. The original bias toward "helpful subordinates" arose from a focus on terrestrial taxa. However, recent consideration of other taxa, especially marine taxa, is slowly revealing that the theory can and should encompass a continuum of cooperative social systems, including those Hing et al.Methodological Approaches to Study Sociality where subordinates do not actively help. This review summarizes the major hypotheses of cooperative breeding theory, one of the dominant frameworks to examine social evolution, and highlights the potential benefits that a combined methodological approach and a broader application could provide to the study of sociality.

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The Right Tools for the Job: Cooperative Breeding Theory and an Evaluation of the Methodological Approaches to Understanding the Evolution and Maintenance of Sociality

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“…Notable exceptions include translocation experiments that showed that within a species the length for which a defended resource can be expected to be exploited (Field et al., 2010) or the availability of high‐quality defendable resources (Komdeur, 1992) can have drastic effects on the expression of sociality. Importantly for the scope of this manuscript, fish have proven useful in this context, because patterns observed in correlational data can be experimentally probed: the resources defended by social species, namely anemones, corals, rocks and/or shells, can be easily manipulated and behavioural responses documented, a work pioneered by Michael Taborsky ((Tab orsky & Wong, 2017), (Jordan et al., 2021); see also below and Discussion for additional details).…”

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On the importance of defendable resources for social evolution: Applying new techniques to a long‐standing question

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“…Although marine species exhibit all of the forms of sociality described in terrestrial and freshwater animals—from pair living to eusociality (Hultgren et al, 2017; Taborsky & Wong, 2017)—they have been largely neglected in discussions of animal social evolution (Rubenstein & Abbot, 2017b). In terrestrial and some freshwater species, dispersal is typically an active process performed by juveniles or adults (Burgess et al, 2016).…”

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