Why do male birds not discriminate between their own and extra-pair offspring?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1165-1173

  Kempenaers, Bart ^b   Sheldon, Ben C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR ETHOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; DISCRIMINATORY ABILITY; EXTRA-PAIR FERTILIZATION; KIN DISCRIMINATION; PATERNAL INVESTMENT;

EID: 0030443016     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0118     Document Type: Article

References (71)

1. Askenmo, C. 1979. Reproductive effort and the return rate of male pied flycatchers. Am. Nat., 114, 748-753.
2. Barnard, C. J. 1990a. Kin recognition: problems, prospects and the evolution of discrimination systems. Adv. Study Behav., 19, 29-81.
3. Barnard, C. J. 1990b. Kinship and social behaviour: the trouble with relatives. Trends Ecol. Evol., 6, 310-312.
4. Barnard, C. J. & Aldhous, P. 1991. Kinship, kin discrimination and mate choice. In: Kin Recognition (Ed. by P. G. Hepper), pp. 125-147. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
5. Barnard, C. J., Hurst, J. L. & Aldhous, P. 1991. Of mice and kin: the functional significance of kin bias in social behaviour. Biol. Rev., 66, 379-430.
6. Bateson, P. 1982. Preferences for cousins in Japanese quail. Nature, Lond., 295, 236-237.
7. Beecher, M. D. 1988. Kin recognition in birds. Behav. Genet., 18, 465-482.
8. Beecher, M. D. 1991. Successes and failures of parent-offspring recognition in animals. In: Kin Recognition (Ed. by P. G. Hepper), pp. 95-124. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
9. Birkhead, T. R. & Møller, A. P. 1992. Sperm Competition in Birds: Evolutionary Causes and Consequences. London: Academic Press.
10. Blaustein, A. R., Bekoff, M. & Daniels, T. J. 1987. Kin recognition in vertebrates (excluding primates): mechanisms, functions, and future research. In: Kin Recognition in Animals (Ed. by D. J. C. Fletcher & C. D. Michener), pp. 333-357. New York: John Wiley.
11. Brinkhof, M. W. G., Cavé, A. J., Hage, F. J. & Verhulst, S. 1993. Timing of reproduction and fledging success in the coot Fulica atra: evidence for a causal relationship. J. Anim. Ecol., 62, 577-587.
12. Brown, J. L. & Eklund, A. 1994. Kin-recognition and the major histocompatibility complex: an integrative review. Am. Nat., 143, 435-461.
13. Burke, T., Davies, N. B., Bruford, M. W. & Hatchwell, B. J. 1989. Parental care and mating behaviour of polyandrous dunnocks Prunella modularis related to paternity by DNA fingerprinting. Nature, Lond., 338, 249-251.
14. Colegrave, N., Birkhead, T. R. & Lessells, C. M. 1995. Sperm precedence in zebra finches does not require special mechanisms of sperm competition. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. Ser. B, 259, 223-228.
15. Curio, E. 1994. Causal and functional questions: how are they linked? Anim. Behav., 47, 999-1021.
16. Davies, N. B. 1992. Dunnock Behaviour and Social Evolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
17. Davies, N. B. & Brooke, M. de L. 1988. Cuckoos versus reed warblers: adaptations and counteradaptations. Anim. Behav., 36, 262-284.
18. Davies, N. B., Hartley, I. R., Hatchwell, B. J., Desrochers, A., Skeer, J. & Nebel, D. 1995. The polygynandrous mating system of the alpine accentor, Prunella collaris. I. Ecological causes and reproductive conflicts. Anim. Behav., 49, 769-788.
19. Davies, N. B., Hatchwell, B. J., Robson, T. & Burke, T. 1992. Paternity and parental effort in dunnocks Prunella modularis: how good are male chick-feeding rules? Anim. Behav., 43, 729-745.
20. Dixon, A., Ross, D., O'Malley, S. L. C. & Burke, T. 1994. Paternal investment inversely related to degree of extra-pair paternity in the reed bunting. Nature, Lond., 371, 698-700.
21. Fleischer, R. C. 1985. A new technique to assess the dispersion of eggs of individual brood parasites. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol., 17, 91-99.
22. Grafen, A. 1980. Opportunity cost, benefit and degree of relatedness. Anim. Behav., 28, 967-968.
23. Grafen, A. 1990. Do animals really recognize kin? Anim. Behav., 39, 42-54.
24. Grafen, A. 1991a. A reply to Blaustein et al. Anim. Behav., 41, 1085-1087.
25. Grafen, A. 1991b. A reply to Byers & Bekoff. Anim. Behav., 41, 1091-1092.
26. Grafen, A. 1991c. Kin vision?: a reply to Stuart. Anim. Behav., 41, 1095-1096.
27. Grosberg, R. K. & Quinn, J. F. 1986. The genetic control and consequences of kin recognition by the larvae of a colonial marine invertebrate. Nature, Lond., 322, 457-459.
28. Gullberg, A., Tegelström, H. & Gelter, H. 1992. DNA fingerprinting reveals multiple paternity in broods of great and blue tits (Parus major and Parus caeruleus). Hereditas, 117, 103-108.
29. Gustafsson, L., Qvarnström, A. & Sheldon, B. C. 1995. Trade-offs between life-history traits and secondary sexual characters in male collared flycatchers. Nature, Lond., 375, 311-313.
30. Hahn, D. C. & Fleischer, R. C. 1995. DNA fingerprint similarity between female and juvenile brown-headed cowbirds trapped together. Anim. Behav., 49, 1577-1580.
31. Hartley, I. R., Davies, N. B., Hatchwell, B. J., Desrochers, A., Nebel, D. & Burke, T. 1995. The polygynandrous mating system of the alpine accentor, Prunella collaris. II. Multiple paternity and parental effort. Anim. Behav., 49, 789-803.
32. Hepper, P. G. 1986. Kin recognition: functions and mechanisms: a review. Biol. Rev., 61, 63-93.
33. Hepper, P. G. (ed.) 1991. Kin Recognition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
34. Kempenaers, B., Verheyen, G. R., Van den Broeck, M., Burke, T., Van Broeckhoven, C. & Dhondt, A. A. 1992. Extra-pair paternity results from female preference for high-quality males in the blue tit. Nature, Lond., 357, 494-496.
35. Lacy, R. C. & Sherman, P. W. 1983. Kin recognition by phenotype matching. Am. Nat., 121, 489-512.
36. Lessells, C. M., Coulthard, N. D., Hodgson, P. J. & Krebs, J. R. 1991. Chick recognition in European bee-eaters: acoustic playback experiments. Anim. Behav., 42, 1031-1033.
37. Lifjeld, J. T. & Robertson, R. J. 1992. Female control of extra-pair fertilization in tree swallows. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol., 31, 89-96.
38. Lifjeld, J. T., Breiehagen, T. & Lampe, H. M. 1992. Pied flycatchers failed to use nestling size as a cue to favour own genetic offspring in a communally raised brood. Ornis Scand., 23, 199-201.
39. Lifjeld, J. T., Dunn, P. O., Robertson, R. J. & Boag, P. T. 1993. Extra-pair paternity in monogamous tree swallows. Anim. Behav., 45, 213-229.
40. Lindén, M. 1988. Reproductive trade-off between first and second clutches in the great tit Parus major: an experimental study. Oikos, 51, 285-290.
41. Lotem, A. 1993. Learning to recognise nestlings is maladaptive for cuckoo Cuculus canorus hosts. Nature, Lond., 362, 743-745.
42. Lubjuhn, T., Curio, E., Muth, S. C., Brün, J. & Epplen, J. T. 1993. Influence of extra-pair paternity on parental care in great tits Parus major. In: DNA Fingerprinting: State of the Science (Ed. by S. D. J. Pena, R. Chakraborty, J. T. Epplen & A. J. Jeffreys), pp. 379-385. Basel: Birkhaüser.
43. Maynard Smith, J. 1977. Parental investment: a prospective analysis. Anim. Behav., 25, 1-9.
44. Merilä, J. 1994. Two mixed clutches of blue tits Parus caeruleus and collared flycatchers Ficedula albicollis. Ornis. Svec., 4, 188-189.
45. Møller, A. P. 1988. Paternity and paternal care in the swallow, Hirundo rustica. Anim. Behav., 36, 996-1005.
46. Mulder, R. A., Dunn, P. O., Cockburn, A., Lazenby-Cohen, K. A. & Howell, M. J. 1994. Helpers liberate female fairy wrens from constraints on extra-pair mate choice. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. Ser. B, 255, 223-229.
47. Norris, K. J. 1993. Seasonal variation in the reproductive success of blue tits: an experimental study. J. Anim. Ecol., 62, 287-294.
48. Owens, I. P. F. 1993. When kids just aren't worth it: cuckoldry and parental care. Trends Ecol. Evol., 8, 269-271.
49. Pettifor, R. A. 1993a. Brood-manipulation experiments. I. The number of offspring surviving per nest in blue tits (Parus caeruleus). J. Anim. Ecol., 62, 131-144.
50. Pettifor, R. A. 1993b. Brood-manipulation experiments. II. A cost of reproduction in blue tits (Parus caeruleus). J. Anim. Ecol., 62, 145-159.
51. Potts, W. K., Manning, C. J. & Wakeland, E. K. 1991. MHC genotype influences mating patterns in semi-natural populations of Mus. Nature, Lond., 352, 619-621.
52. Potts, W. K., Manning, C. J. & Wakeland, E. K. 1994. The role of infectious disease, inbreeding and mating preferences in maintaining MHC genetic diversity: an experimental test. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. Ser. B, 346, 369-378.
53. Potts, W. K. & Wakeland, E. K. 1990. Evolution of diversity at the major histocompatibility complex. Trends Ecol. Evol., 5, 181-187.
54. Robertson, R. J. 1990. Tactics and counter-tactics of sexually selected infanticide in tree swallows. In: Population Biology of Passerine Birds (Ed. by J. Blondel, A. Gosler, J.-D. Lebreton & R. McCleery), pp. 381-390. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
55. Shy, M. M. 1982. Interspecific feeding amongst birds: a review. J. Field Ornithol., 53, 370-393.
56. Slagsvold, T., Amundsen, T. & Dale, S. 1994. Selection by sexual conflict for evenly spaced offspring in blue tits. Nature, Lond., 370, 136-138.
57. Smith, H. G., Källander, H., Fontell, K. & Ljungström, M. 1988. Feeding frequency and parental division of labor in the double-brooded great tit Parus major. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol., 22, 447-453.
58. Trivers, R. L. 1972. Parental investment and sexual selection. In: Sexual Selection and the Descent of Man, 1871-1971 (Ed. by B. Campbell), pp. 136-179. Chicago: Aldine Press.
59. Trowsdale, J. 1995. 'Both bird & man & beast': comparative organization of MHC genes. Immunogenetics, 41, 1-17.
60. Veiga, J. P. 1990. Infanticide by male and female house sparrows. Anim. Behav., 39, 496-502.
61. Waldman, B., Frumhoff, P. C. & Sherman, P. W. 1988. Problems of kin recognition. Trends Ecol. Evol., 3, 8-13.
62. Westneat, D. F. 1988. Male parental care and extra-pair copulations in the indigo bunting. Auk, 105, 149-160.
63. Westneat, D. F. & Sherman, P. W. 1993. Parentage and the evolution of parental care. Behav. Ecol., 4, 66-77.
64. Westneat, D. F., Clark, A. B. & Rambo, K. C. 1995. Within-brood patterns of paternity and paternal behavior in red-winged blackbirds. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol., 37, 349-356.
65. Wetton, J. H. & Parkin, D. T. 1991. An association between fertility and cuckoldry in the house sparrow Passer domesticus. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. Ser. B, 245, 227-233.
66. Whittingham, L. A., Dunn, P. O. & Robertson, R. J. 1993. Confidence of paternity and male parental care: an experimental study in tree swallows. Anim. Behav., 46, 139-147.
67. Whittingham, L. A., Taylor, P. D. & Robertson, R. J. 1992. Confidence of paternity and male parental care. Am. Nat., 139, 1115-1125.
68. Wright, J. & Cotton, P. A. 1994. Experimentally induced differences in parental care: an effect of certainty of paternity? Anim. Behav., 47, 1311-1322.
69. Wright, J. & Cuthill, I. 1990. Biparental care: short term manipulations of partner contribution and brood size in the starling, Sturnus vulgaris. Behav. Ecol., 1, 116-124.
70. Xia, X. 1992. Uncertainty of paternity can select against paternal care. Am. Nat., 139, 1126-1129.
71. Yamazaki, K., Boyse, E. A., Mike, V., Thaler, H. T., Mathieson, B. J., Abbott, J., Boyse, J. & Zayas, Z. A. 1976. Control of mating preferences in mice by genes in the major histocompatibility complex. J. exp. Med., 144, 1324-1335.