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McDonald, Grant C., Spurgin, Lewis G., Fairfield, Eleanor A., Richardson, David S. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7226-9074 and Pizzari, Tommaso
(2019)
Differential female sociality is linked with the fine-scale structure of sexual interactions in replicate groups of red junglefowl, Gallus gallus.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 286 (1913).
ISSN 0962-8452
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Abstract
Recent work indicates that social structure has extensive implications for patterns of sexual selection and sexual conflict. However, little is known about the individual variation in social behaviours linking social structure to sexual interactions. Here, we use network analysis of replicate polygynandrous groups of red junglefowl (Gallus gallus) to show that the association between social structure and sexual interactions is underpinned by differential female sociality. Sexual dynamics are largely explained by a core group of highly social, younger females, which are more fecund and more polyandrous, and thus associated with more intense postcopulatory competition for males. By contrast, less fecund females from older cohorts, which tend to be socially dominant, avoid male sexual attention by clustering together and perching on branches, and preferentially reproduce with dominant males by more exclusively associating and mating with them. Collectively, these results indicate that individual females occupy subtly different social niches and demonstrate that female sociality can be an important factor underpinning the landscape of intrasexual competition and the emergent structure of animal societies.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | gallus,polyandry,sexual networks,sexual selection,social networks,social niche construction,biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology(all),immunology and microbiology(all),environmental science(all),agricultural and biological sciences(all) ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1300 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Biological Sciences |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Organisms and the Environment Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Conservation |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Dec 2019 03:38 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Aug 2023 00:35 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/73395 |
| DOI: | 10.1098/rspb.2019.1734 |
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