Description
In cooperative breeding systems, parental care is generally shared between socially dominant individuals and (often related) subordinate helpers. The alloparental care provided by helpers often allows the dominants to reduce their current reproductive investment, which may then reduce the negative impacts of reproductive effort on the condition of dominants (e.g. through reducing oxidative stress) and increase the survival of helped dominants.
In this study, we use 15 years of data on the facultative cooperatively breeding Seychelles warbler Acrocephalus sechellensis to study associations between actuarial senescence and cooperative breeding.
In this study, we use 15 years of data on the facultative cooperatively breeding Seychelles warbler Acrocephalus sechellensis to study associations between actuarial senescence and cooperative breeding.
| Date made available | 21-Feb-2019 |
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| Publisher | University of Groningen |
| Date of data production | 1997 - 2012 |
| Geographical coverage | Cousin Island, Seychelles |
Keywords on Datasets
- Evolutionary biology
- Ecology
- Ethology
- Social Biology
- Seychelles warbler
- Acrocephalus sechellensis
- Telomere attrition
- Incubation
- delayed senescence
- cooperative breeding
Research output
- 1 Article
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Breeders that receive help age more slowly in a cooperatively breeding bird
Hammers, M., Kingma, S. A., Spurgin, L. G., Bebbington, K. L., Dugdale, H., Burke, T., Komdeur, J. & Richardson, D. S., 21-Mar-2019, In: Nature Communications. 10, 10 p., 1301.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Press/Media
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Samenwerken in het paradijs
Hammers, M.
21/03/2019 → 09/06/2019
3 items of Media coverage, 1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research › Popular
Projects
- 1 Finished
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Why do social species live longer? - Investigating interactions between helping and senescence in cooperatively breeding animals
Hammers, M. (Postdoc), Weissing, F. (Advisor) & Komdeur, J. (Advisor)
16/11/2015 → 16/11/2019
Project: Research
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