Costs and benefits of communal rearing to female prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster)

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 585-593

  Hayes, Loren Donald ^a   Solomon, Nancy Gail ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Communal rearing; Microtus; Plural breeding; Singular breeding; Voles

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE BREEDING; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; REARING; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; RODENT;

MICROTUS; MICROTUS OCHROGASTER; MURIDAE;

EID: 6344260686     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-004-0815-4     Document Type: Article

References (54)

1. Blumstein DT, Armitage KB (1999) Cooperative breeding in marmots. Oikos 84:369-382
2. Brant CL, Schwab TM, Vandenbergh JG, Schaefer RL, Solomon NG (1998) Behavioural suppression of female pine voles after replacement of the breeding male. Anim Behav 55:615-627
3. Cameron EZ (1998) Is suckling behaviour a useful predictor of milk intake? A review. Anim Behav 56:521-532
4. Clutton-Brock TH, Albon SD, Guinness FE (1989) Fitness costs of gestation and lactation in wild mammals. Nature 337:260-262
5. Derrickson EM (1988) The effect of experimental termination of lactation on subsequent growth in Peromyscus leucopus. Can J Zool 66:2507-2512
6. Ebensperger LA, Cofré H (2001) On the evolution of group-living in the New World cursorial hystricognath rodents. Behav Ecol 12:227-236
7. Elwood RW, Broom DM (1978) The influence of litter size and parental behaviour on the development of Mongolian gerbil pups. Anim Behav 26:438-454
8. Festa-Bianchet M, Jorgenson JT, Réale D (2000) Early development, adult mass, and reproductive success in bighorn sheep. Behav Ecol 11:633-639
9. Gerlach G, Bartmann S (2002) Reproductive skew, costs and benefits of cooperative breeding in female wood mice (Apodemus sylvaticus). Behav Ecol 13:408-418
10. Getz LL, Simms LE, McGuire B, Snarski ME (1997) Factors affecting life expectancy of the prairie vole, Microtus ochrogaster. Oikos 80:362-370
11. Getz LL, McGuire B, Pizzuto T, Hofmann JE, Frase B (1993) Social organization of the prairie vole (Microtus ochrogaster). J Mammal 74:44-58
12. Getz LL, McGuire B (1997) Communal nesting in prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster): formation, composition and persistence of communal groups. Can J Zool 75:525-534
13. Hamilton WD (1964) The genetical evolution of social behaviour. J Theor Biol 7:1-51
14. Hayes LD (2000) To nest communally or not to nest communally: a review of rodent communal nesting and nursing. Anim Behav 59:677-688
15. Haywood S, Perrins CM (1992) Is clutch size in birds affected by environmental conditions during growth? Proc R Soc Lond B 249:195-197
16. Hoffmann RS, Koeppl JW (1985) Zoogeography. In: Tamarin RH (ed) Biology of New World Microtus. Am Soc Mamm Spec Publ No. 8, pp 84-115
17. Huber S, Millesi E, Walzl M, Dittami J, Arnold W (1999) Reproductive effort and costs of reproduction in female European ground squirrels. Oecologia 121:19-24
18. Huber S, Hoffmann IE, Millesi E, Dittami J, Arnold W (2001) Explaining the seasonal decline in litter size in European ground squirrels. Ecography 24:205-211
19. Innes DGL, Millar JS (1981) Body weight, litter size, and energetics of reproduction in Chlethrionomys gapperi and Microtus pennsylvanicus. Can J Zool 59:785-789
20. Jonsson P, Agrell J, Koskela E, Mappes T (2002) Effects of litter size on pup defence and weaning success of neighbouring bank vole females. Can J Zool 80:1-5
21. Koivula M, Koskela E, Mappes T, Oksanen TA (2003) Cost of reproduction in the wild: manipulation of reproductive effort in the bank vole. Ecology 84:398-405
22. König B (1994) Components of lifetime reproductive success in communally and solitarily nursing house mice - a laboratory study. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 34:275-283
23. König B (1997) Cooperative care of young in mammals. Naturwissenschaften 84:95-104
24. Koskela E (1998) Offspring growth, survival and reproductive success in the bank vole: a litter size manipulation experiment. Oecologia 115:379-384
25. Lacey EA (2004) Sociality reduces individual direct fitness in a communally breeding rodent, the colonial tuco-tuco (Ctenomys sociabilis). Behav Ecol Sociobiol (in press)
26. Lacey EA, Sherman PW (1997) Cooperative breeding in naked mole-rats: implications for vertebrate and invertebrate sociality. In: Solomon NG, French JA (eds) Cooperative breeding in mammals. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp 267-301
27. Lima SL (1998) Stress and decision making under the risk of predation: recent developments from behavioral, reproductive, and ecological perspectives. Adv Stud Behav 27:215-290
28. Lindström J (1999) Early development and fitness in birds and mammals. Trends Evol Ecol 14:343-348
29. Madison DM (1984) Group nesting and its ecological and evolutionary significance in overwintering microtine rodents. In: Merritt JF (ed) Winter ecology of small mammals. Carnegie Mus Spec Publ, vol. 10, pp 267-274
30. McGuire B, Getz LL (1995) Communal nesting in prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster): an evaluation of costs and benefits based on patterns of dispersal and settlement. Can J Zool 73:383-391
31. McGuire B, Novak M (1984) A comparison of maternal behaviour in the meadow vole (Microtus pennsylvanicus), prairie vole (M. ochrogaster) and pine vole (M. pinetorum). Anim Behav 32:1132-1141
32. McGuire B, Heller H, Novak M (1988) Milk composition and volume in meadow voles and prairie voles. Acta Theriol 33(26-43):537-544
33. McGuire B, Getz LL, Oli MK (2002) Fitness consequences of sociality in prairie voles, Microtus ochrogaster: influence of group size and composition. Anim Behav 64:645-654
34. Mennella JA, Blumberg MS, McClintock MK, Moltz H (1990) Inter-litter competition and communal nursing among Norway rats: advantages of birth synchrony. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 27:183-190
35. Metcalfe NB, Monaghan P (2001) Compensation for a bad start: grow now, pay later? Trends Evol Ecol 16:254-260
36. Neuhaus P (2000) Weight comparisons and litter size manipulation in Columbian ground squirrels (Spermophilus columbianus) show evidence of costs of reproduction. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 48:75-83
37. Pilastro A, Missiaglia E, Marin G (1996) Age-related reproductive success in solitarily and communally nesting female dormice (Glis glis). J Zool 239:601-608
38. Powell RA, Fried JJ (1992) Helping by juvenile pine voles (Microtus pinetorum), growth and survival of younger siblings, and the evolution of pine vole sociality. Behav Ecol 3:325-333
39. Richmond ME, Conaway CH (1969) Management, breeding and reproductive performance of the vole, Microtus ochrogaster in a laboratory colony. Lab Anim Care 19:80-87
40. Rogowitz GL (1996) Trade-offs in energy allocation during lactation. Am Zool 36:197-204
41. Roulin A, Heeb P (1999) The immunological function of allosuckling. Ecol Lett 2:319-324
42. Russell AF, Clutton-Brock TH, Brotherton PNM, Sharpe LL, Mcilrath GM, Dalerum FD, Cameron EZ, Barnard JA (2002) Factors affecting pup growth and survival in co-operatively breeding meerkats Suricata suricatta. J Anim Ecol 71:700-709
43. Sayler A, Salmon M (1969) Communal nursing in mice: influence of multiple mothers on the growth of the young. Science 164:1309-1310
44. Sayler A, Salmon M (1971) An ethological analysis of communal nursing by the house mouse (Mus musculus). Behaviour 40:60-85
45. Schanberg SM, Evoniuk G, Kuhn CM (1984) Tactile and nutritional aspects of maternal care-specific regulators of neuroendocrine function and cellular development. Proc Soc Exp Biol Med 175:135-146
46. Sheridan M, Tamarin RH (1988) Space use, longevity, and reproductive success in meadow voles. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 22:85-90
47. Solomon NG (1991) Current indirect fitness benefits associated with philopatry in juvenile prairie voles. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 29:277-282
48. Solomon NG (1993) Body size and social preferences of male and female prairie voles, Microtus ochrogaster. Anim Behav 45:1031-1033
49. Solomon NG (1994) Effect of the pre-weaning environment on subsequent reproduction in prairie voles, Microtus ochrogaster. Anim Behav 48:331-341
50. Solomon NG, Getz LL (1997) Examination of alternative hypotheses for cooperative breeding in rodents. In: Solomon NG, French JA (eds) Cooperative breeding in mammals. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp 199-230
51. Thompson SD (1992) Gestation and lactation in small mammals: basal metabolic rate and the limits of energy use. In: Tomasi TE, Horton TH (eds) Mammalian energetics: interdisciplinary views of metabolism and reproduction. Comstock, Ithaca, N.Y., pp 213-259
52. Trivers RL (1972) Parental investment and sexual selection. In: Campbell B (ed) Sexual selection and the descent of man. Aldine, Chicago
53. Werboff J, Steg M, Barnes L (1970) Communal nursing in mice: strain-specific effects of multiple mothers on growth and behavior. Psychon Sci 19:269-271
54. Wolff JO (1994) Reproductive success of solitarily and communally nesting white-footed and deer mice. Behav Ecol 5:206-209