A double pedigree reveals genetic but not cultural inheritance of cooperative personalities in wild banded mongooses
dc.contributor.author | Nichols, HJ | |
dc.contributor.author | Arbuckle, K | |
dc.contributor.author | Sanderson, JL | |
dc.contributor.author | Vitikainen, EIK | |
dc.contributor.author | Marshall, HH | |
dc.contributor.author | Thompson, FJ | |
dc.contributor.author | Cant, MA | |
dc.contributor.author | Wells, DA | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-08-11T11:59:42Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-06-26 | |
dc.description.abstract | Personality traits, such as the propensity to cooperate, are often inherited from parents to offspring, but the pathway of inheritance is unclear. Traits could be inherited via genetic or parental effects, or culturally via social learning from role models. However, these pathways are difficult to disentangle in natural systems as parents are usually the source of all of these effects. Here, we exploit natural ‘cross fostering’ in wild banded mongooses to investigate the inheritance of cooperative behaviour. Our analysis of 800 adult helpers over 21 years showed low but significant genetic heritability of cooperative personalities in males but not females. Cross fostering revealed little evidence of cultural heritability: offspring reared by particularly cooperative helpers did not become more cooperative themselves. Our results demonstrate that cooperative personalities are not always highly heritable in wild, and that the basis of behavioural traits can vary within a species (here, by sex). | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | European Commission | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Leverhulme Trust | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Alexander von Humboldt Foundation | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 24 (9), pp. 1966 - 1975 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/ele.13833 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | NE/J010278/1 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | P/O 8700231303 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | NE/S000046/1 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | NE/N011171/1 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | IAF-2018-006 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/126738 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Wiley / Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.14248784.v1 | |
dc.rights | © 2021 The Authors. Ecology Letters published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | en_GB |
dc.subject | cooperation | en_GB |
dc.subject | cultural inheritance | en_GB |
dc.subject | helping syndromes | en_GB |
dc.subject | heritability | en_GB |
dc.subject | missing inheritance | en_GB |
dc.subject | personality | en_GB |
dc.title | A double pedigree reveals genetic but not cultural inheritance of cooperative personalities in wild banded mongooses | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2021-08-11T11:59:42Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1461-023X | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from Wiley via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.description | Data availability statement: Data and R code used in this paper can be found at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.14248784.v1 | |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1461-0248 | |
dc.identifier.journal | Ecology Letters | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2021-05-26 | |
exeter.funder | ::Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) | en_GB |
exeter.funder | ::European Commission | en_GB |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2021-06-26 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2021-08-11T11:54:46Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2021-08-11T12:00:37Z | |
refterms.panel | A | en_GB |
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