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- Special Research Seminar, 14 January 2020
16:30-, The Interdivisional Education and Research Building , 5th
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「To Be or Not to Be Father: Male Reproductive Skew in Primate Multimale Groups」
Antje Engelhardt (School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University)
Kin selection is a strong driver of social relationships. Thus, the degree to which individuals of the same group are related to each other can have significant implications for the group’s social life. At the same time, the genetic composition of a group or population is also important from a conservation point of view, with inbreeding potential posing potential harm to the population’s survival. In female-philopatric groups, genetic diversity is majorly influenced through the migration patterns and reproductive performance of males. In primates living in mutlimale groups, the degree to which individual males get the opportunity to reproduce and thus keep their genes in the pool various astonishing between different species. The reason for this difference in male reproductive skew still remains obscure. Furthermore, primates are special in the degree to which females show non-procreative mating and exhibit sexual signals. There is good reason to assume that these traits play an important role for individual male reproductive success in primates. We have studied the occurrence and function of female sexual signals, and potential causes for the variation of male reproductive skew across a number of macaque species. I will present our results in this talk.
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