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Kinship and familiarity mitigate costs of social conflict between Seychelles warbler neighbors.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 24 Oct 2017
Bebbington Kat, Kingma Sjouke A, Fairfield Eleanor A, Dugdale Hannah L, Komdeur Jan, Spurgin Lewis G, Richardson David S
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Because virtually all organisms compete with others in their social environment, mechanisms that reduce conflict between interacting individuals are crucial for the evolution of stable families, groups, and societies. Here, we tested whether costs of social conflict over territorial space between Seychelles warblers (Acrocephalus sechellensis) are mitigated by kin-selected (genetic relatedness) or mutualistic...
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