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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Kin discrimination"”.
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Paternity and father-offspring relationships in wild chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii.
Hamilton's seminal theory of kin selection asserts that because relatives share a certain proportion of genes, individuals can increase their inclusive fitness by helping and/or not harming kin, as long as the benefits to kin outweigh the costs to the individual. We would expect animals to attain …
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Social behavior and kinship in the four-toed salamander, Hemidactylium scutatum
… interaction between relatedness and dispersal (kin discrimination) and the potential for phenotypic traits to be used as a mechanism for kin recognition. I combined empirical observations with lab experiments to (1) examine population structure in H. scutatum (Chapter 1), (2) determine if …
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Evolutionary Genetics of Dictyostelids: Cryptic Species, Sociality and Sex
… how speciation and genetic diversity affects kin discrimination using a related dictyostelid, Polysphondylium violaceum . I sequenced the ribosomal DNA of 90 clones of P. violaceum and found that P. violaceum is split into several morphologically identical groups. When allowed to cooperate in …