Wild cricket social networks show stability across generations.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A central part of an animal's environment is its interactions with conspecifics. There has been growing interest in the potential to capture these interactions in the form of a social network. Such networks can then be used to examine how relationships among individuals affect ecological and evolutionary processes. However, in the context of selection and evolution, the utility of this approach relies on social network structures persisting across generations. This is an assumption that has been difficult to test because networks spanning multiple generations have not been available. We constructed social networks for six annual generations over a period of eight years for a wild population of the cricket Gryllus campestris.

Results

Through the use of exponential

SUBMITTER: Fisher DN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4964091 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature