Maternal investment tactics in superb fairy-wrens

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 275, Issue 1630, 2008, Pages 29-36

  Russell, A F ^a,b   Langmore, N E ^c   Gardner, J L ^c   Kilner, R M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bi parental care; Cooperative breeding; Helper effects; Load lightening; Provisioning rules

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOOD PROVISIONING; MATERNAL EFFECT; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; PASSERINE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BIRD; BREEDING; CHICK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EGG; FAIRY WREN; FEMALE; FORAGING; MOTHER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY;

AVES; MALURUS CYANEUS; TROGLODYTINAE;

EID: 36348998202     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.0821     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Brown, J. L. 1978 Avian communal breeding systems. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 9, 123-155. (doi:10.1146/annurev.es.09.110178.001011)
2. Clutton-Brock, T. H. 1991 The evolution of parental care. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
3. Clutton-Brock, T. H., Russell, A. F., Sharpe, L. L., Brotherton, P. N. M., McIlrath, G. M., White, S. & Cameron, E. Z. 2001 Effects of helpers on juvenile development and survival in meerkats. Science 293, 2446-2449. (doi:10.1126/science.1061274)
4. Cockburn, A. 1998 Evolution of helping in cooperatively breeding birds. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 29, 141-177. (doi:10.1146/annurev.ecolsys. 29.1.141)
5. Cockburn, A., Osmond, H. L., Mulder, R. A., Green, D. J. & Double, M. C. 2003 Divorce, dispersal and incest avoidance in the cooperatively breeding superb fairy-wren Malurus cyaneus. J. Anim. Ecol. 79, 189-202. (doi:10.1046/j.1365-2656.2003.00694.x)
6. Cockburn, A., Simms, R. A., Osmond, H. L., Green, D. J., Double, M. C. & Mulder, R. A. In press. Can we measure the benefits of help in cooperatively breeding birds: the case of the superb fairy-wren Malurus cyaneus. J. Anim. Ecol.
7. Crick, H. Q. P. 1992 Load-lightening in cooperatively breeding birds and the cost of reproduction. Ibis 134, 56-61.
8. Davies, N. B. & Hatchwell, B. J. 1992 The value of male parental care and its influence on reproductive allocation by male and female dunnocks. J. Anim. Ecol. 61, 259-272. (doi:10.2307/5319)
9. Dunn, P. O. & Cockburn, A. 1996 Evolution of male parental care in a bird with almost complete cuckoldry. Evolution 50, 2542-2548. (doi:10.2307/2410724)
10. Dunn, P. O., Cockburn, A. & Mulder, R. A. 1995 Fairy-wren helpers often care for young to which they are unrelated. Proc. R. Soc. B 259, 339-343. (doi:10.1098/rspb.1995.0050)
11. DuPlessis, M. A. 1993 Helping behaviour in cooperatively-breeding green woodhoopoes: selected or unselected trait? Behaviour 127, 49-65.
12. Emlen, S. T. 1991 Evolution of cooperative breeding in birds and mammals. In Behavioural ecology (eds J. R. Krebs & N. B. Davies), pp. 301-337. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Scientific.
13. Green, D. J., Cockburn, A., Hall, M. L., Osmond, H. L. & Dunn, P. O. 1995 Increased opportunities for cuckoldry may be why dominant male fairy-wrens tolerate helpers. Proc. R. Soc. B 262, 297-303. (doi:10.1098/rspb.1995.0209)
14. Härdling, R., Kokko, H. & Arnold, K. E. 2003 Dynamics of the caring family. Am. Nat. 161, 395-412. (doi:10.1086/367587)
15. Hatchwell, B. J. 1999 Investment strategies of breeders in avian cooperative breeding systems. Am. Nat. 154, 205-219. (doi:10.1086/303227)
16. Hatchwell, B. J. & Davies, N. B. 1990 Provisioning of nestlings by dunnocks, Prunella modularis, in pairs and trios - compensation reactions by males and females. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 27, 199-209. (doi:10.1007/BF00180304)
17. Hatchwell, B. J. & Russell, A. F. 1996 Provisioning rules in cooperatively breeding long-tailed tits: an experimental study. Proc. R. Soc. B 263, 83-88. (doi:10.1098/rspb.1996.0014)
18. Hatchwell, B. J., Russell, A. F., MacColl, A. D. C., Ross, D. J., Fowlie, M. K. & McGowan, A. 2004 Helpers increase long-term but not short-term productivity in cooperatively breeding long-tailed tits. Behav. Ecol. 15, 1-10. (doi:10.1093/beheco/arg091)
19. Heinsohn, R. G. 2004 Parental care, load-lightening and costs. In Ecology and evolution of cooperative breeding in birds (eds W. D. Koenig & J. L. Dickinson), pp. 67-80. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press.
20. Jennions, M. D. & Macdonald, D. W. 1994 Cooperative breeding in mammals. Trends Ecol. Evol. 9, 89-93. (doi:10.1016/0169-5347(94) 90202-X)
21. Langmore, N. E. & Kilner, R.M. In press. Breeding site and host selection in Horsfield's bronze-cuckoos Chalcites basalis.
22. Langmore, N. E., Hunt, S. & Kilner, R. M. 2003 Escalation of a coevolutionary arms race through host rejection of brood parasitic young. Nature 422, 157-160. (doi:10.1038/nature01460)
23. Luck, G. W. 2002 The parental investment strategy of an avian cooperative breeder differs between a fragmented and an unfragmented landscape. Am. Nat. 160, 809-814. (doi:10.1086/343881)
24. MacGregor, N. A. & Cockburn, A. 2002 Sex differences in parental response to begging nestlings in superb fairy-wrens. Anim. Behav. 63, 923-932. (doi:10.1006/anbe.2001.1991)
25. 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. B 255, 223-229. (doi:10.1098/rspb.1994.0032)
26. Nager, R. G., Monaghan, P. & Houston, D. C. 2000 Within-clutch trade-offs between the number and quality of eggs. Ecology 81, 1339-1350.
27. Rowley, I. & Russell, E. M. 1997 Fairy-wrens and grasswrens: maluridae. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
28. Russell, A. F., Langmore, N. E., Cockburn, A., Astheimer, L. B. & Kilner, R. M. 2007 Reduced egg investment can conceal helper effects in cooperatively breeding birds. Science 317, 941-944. (doi:10.1126/science.1146037)
29. Trivers, R. L. 1972 Parental investment and sexual selection. In Sexual selection and the descent of man 1871-1971 (ed. B. Campbell), pp. 136-179. London, UK: Heinemann.
30. Williams, G. C. 1966 Natural selection, the costs of reproduction, and a refinement of Lack's principle. Am. Nat. 100, 687-690. (doi:10.1086/282461)
31. Wright, J. 1998 Helping-at-the-nest and group size in the Arabian Babbler Turdoides squamiceps. J. Avian Biol. 29, 105-112. (doi:10.2307/3677187)
32. Wright, J. & Dingemanse, N. J. 1999 Parents and helpers compensate for experimental changes in the provisioning effort of others in the Arabian babbler. Anim. Behav. 58, 345-350. (doi:10.1006/anbe.1999.1152)