The biparental care hypothesis for the evolution of monogamy: experimental evidence in an amphibian

Tumulty, James P.; Morales, Víctor; Summers, Kyle

doi:10.1093/beheco/art116

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“…; songbirds: Matysioková & Remeš ; mimic poison frog: Tumulty et al. ). In many gregarious species, relationships with partners other than mates have important fitness consequences as well.…”

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“…The benefits that animals derive from intra-and intersex social bonds depend on the species' ecology and social structure. In some socially monogamous species, investment in long-term reproductive pair bonds increases offspring quality and survival (e.g., mice: Gubernick & Teferi 2000;snapping shrimp: Mathews 2002; coral-dwelling gobies: Wong et al 2008; songbirds: Matysiokov a & Reme s 2013; mimic poison frog: Tumulty et al 2013). In many gregarious species, relationships with partners other than mates have important fitness consequences as well.…”

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Relationships Between Adult Male and Maturing Mountain Gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) Persist Across Developmental Stages and Social Upheaval

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Across the animal kingdom, long-term social relationships outside the context of reproductive pair bonds are rare. However, they have been demonstrated in some mammals including primates, cetaceans, and social carnivores. The ontogeny of such relationships is likely to depend on the benefits individuals can gain by cultivating them. Previous studies demonstrated that young mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) have strong relationships with adult males, but little is known about the longevity of these bonds. Here, we examine the temporal stability of proximity relationships between coresident adult male and maturing gorillas in the habituated population monitored by the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International's Karisoke Research Center in Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda. We used spatial proximity data to assess the strength of relationships between adult males and juveniles, and tracked these relationships as the juveniles matured into subadults (3-4 yr later; n = 229 dyads) and then young adults (7 yr later; n = 42 dyads). The proximity relationships of juveniles of both sexes predicted their proximity relationships with adult males in both subadulthood and young adulthood. However some young adult males who had lost their top adult male proximity partner from juvenilehood developed new relationships with older males that had risen in the dominance hierarchy. These data suggest that (1) kin selection may play a more important role in social relationships between potential fathers and adult female offspring than previously suspected, and (2) when maturing males' foremost adult male social partners remain available to them, their relationships can be stable past the age at which younger males become reproductive competitors.

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Relationships Between Adult Male and Maturing Mountain Gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) Persist Across Developmental Stages and Social Upheaval

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“…The mimic poison frog (Ranitomeya imitator) is the first known example of a socially and genetically monogamous amphibian (Tumulty et al, 2013).…”

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Why Monogamy? A Review of Potential Ultimate Drivers

Klug

2018

Front. Ecol. Evol.

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The existence of monogamy in animals is perplexing from an evolutionary perspective. If individuals: (1) have the opportunity to mate with more than one individual and (2) doing so provides fitness benefits (e.g., indirect benefits, increased mating success or fecundity), why does monogamy ever occur in animals? To address this question, we must examine how the potential benefits and costs of monogamy differ between the sexes and how such costs and benefits interact with factors including resource availability, offspring need, parental care, and mating dynamics (i.e., the costs and benefits associated with acquiring mates and mate availability). In this review, I examine the interplay between parental and offspring dynamics, resource availability and mate distribution, and mating dynamics. In doing so, I highlight the life history and ecological conditions under which monogamy is expected vs. not. I then discuss areas of research that are needed to enhance our evolutionary understanding of monogamy. In particular, enhanced understanding of monogamy will come from: (1) more explicit consideration that the factors that lead to the origin of monogamy vs. the maintenance of monogamy might differ and (2) identifying how potential interactions among factors influence the origin and/or maintenance of monogamy.

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“…Studies such as this one that experimentally manipulate GC levels have the potential to reveal how anthropogenic stressors will mediate parental care behaviour (including decisions to abandon a developing brood or forego reproduction), reproductive success and fitness in wild animals. Tables Table 2- (Tullberg et al 2002), reptiles (Shine et al 1997;Platt and Thorbjarnarson 2000), amphibian (Summers 1992;Tumulty et al 2014), and fish (Blumer 1982;Gross and Sargent 1985). Of all vertebrate taxa, fish exhibit the greatest diversity of parental care modes (Clutton-Brock 1991; Webb et al 1999) including paternal care (sole male care), maternal care (sole female care), biparental care (both parents), and combinations thereof (Gross and Sargent 1985;Goodwin et al 1998).…”

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“…Parental Care Many vertebrate taxa provide extended post fertilization care during brood development brood, which is advantageous in terms of fitness; parents benefit by increasing chances of offspring survival, thus increasing the chances of passing on their genes to future generations (Clutton-Brock 1991). Parental care occurs in mammals (Gubernick and Klopfer 1981), birds (Tullberg et al 2002), reptiles (Shine et al 1997;Platt and Thorbjarnarson 2000), amphibians (Summers 1992;Tumulty et al 2014), and fish (Blumer 1982;Gross and Sargent 1985).…”

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The Influence of Exogenous Cortisol Manipulation on Parental Investment and Reproductive Success in Nest Guarding Male Smallmouth Bass

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The biparental care hypothesis for the evolution of monogamy: experimental evidence in an amphibian

Cited by 48 publications

References 38 publications

Relationships Between Adult Male and Maturing Mountain Gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) Persist Across Developmental Stages and Social Upheaval

Relationships Between Adult Male and Maturing Mountain Gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) Persist Across Developmental Stages and Social Upheaval

Why Monogamy? A Review of Potential Ultimate Drivers

The Influence of Exogenous Cortisol Manipulation on Parental Investment and Reproductive Success in Nest Guarding Male Smallmouth Bass

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