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NATURE
卷 437, 期 7057, 页码 408-411出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nature03965
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- Natural Environment Research Council [NER/I/S/2002/00732] Funding Source: researchfish
Mating strategies that lead to increased kinship within socially cooperative groups may offer inclusive fitness benefits to individuals(1-3), but can also result in higher levels of inbreeding(4-6). Here we show in a sexually segregated bat species that females avoid this conflict through two mating behaviours. First, most females revisit and breed with specific, individual males across years, so that their single offspring born in different years are full siblings. Second, relatives in the maternal line, including mothers and daughters, share breeding partners (intra-lineage polygyny) more often than expected by chance. Although these behaviours increased levels of co-ancestry among colony members, there was no concomitant rise in inbreeding. We suggest that when females engage in mate fidelity and intra-lineage polygyny, kin ties among female roost mates will be strengthened, thereby potentially contributing to social group cohesiveness. Our findings reveal the hidden complexity that can underlie polygynous breeding, and highlight a new potential route by which female mate choice could influence social evolution.
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