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SUBMITTER: Jungwirth A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9984175 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jungwirth Arne A Zöttl Markus M Bonfils Danielle D Josi Dario D Frommen Joachim G JG Taborsky Michael M
Science advances 20230303 9
Social evolution is tightly linked to dispersal decisions, but the ecological and social factors selecting for philopatry or dispersal often remain obscure. Elucidating selection mechanisms underlying alternative life histories requires measurement of fitness effects in the wild. We report on a long-term field study of 496 individually marked cooperatively breeding fish, showing that philopatry is beneficial as it increases breeding tenure and lifetime reproductive success in both sexes. Dispers ...[more]