Kin recognition in a clonal fish, Poecilia formosa

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dc.creatorMakowicz, Amber M.
dc.creatorTiedemann, Ralph
dc.creatorSteele, Rachel N.
dc.creatorSchlupp, Ingo
dc.date.accessioned2016-08-03T16:12:59Z
dc.date.available2016-08-03T16:12:59Z
dc.date.issued2016-08-16
dc.description.abstractRelatedness strongly influences social behaviors in a wide variety of species. For most species, the highest typical degree of relatedness is between full siblings with 50% shared genes. However, this is poorly understood in species with unusually high relatedness between individuals: clonal organisms. Although there has been some investigation into clonal invertebrates and yeast, nothing is known about kin selection in clonal vertebrates. We show that a clonal fish, the Amazon molly (Poecilia formosa), can distinguish between different clonal lineages, associating with genetically identical, sister clones, and use multiple sensory modalities. Also, they scale their aggressive behaviors according to the relatedness to other females: they are more aggressive to non-related clones. Our results demonstrate that even in species with very small genetic differences between individuals, kin recognition can be adaptive. Their discriminatory abilities and regulation of costly behaviors provides a powerful example of natural selection in species with limited genetic diversity.en_US
dc.description.peerreviewYesen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipFunding was provided by an Adams Memorial Scholarship, Robberson Research Grant, Graduate Student Senate Research Grant, L.G. Hill Award, Eddie Carol Smith Scholarship, GAANN fellowship (AMM), and an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Award (IS).en_US
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dc.identifier.citationMakowicz AM, Tiedemann R, Steele RN, Schlupp I (2016) Kin Recognition in a Clonal Fish, Poecilia formosa. PLoS ONE 11(8): e0158442. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0158442en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1371/journal.pone.0158442en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.5061/dryad.m5n5ben_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11244/44799
dc.languageen_USen_US
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dc.subject.keywordsPoecilia formosaen_US
dc.subject.keywordsAmazon mollyen_US
dc.subject.lcshPoecilia -- Behavioren_US
dc.subject.lcshKin recognition in animalsen_US
dc.titleKin recognition in a clonal fish, Poecilia formosaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.typeDataseten_US
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dc.typecomputer dataset
ou.groupCollege of Arts and Sciences::Department of Biologyen_US

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