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Modeling the origins of mammalian sociality: moderate evidence for matrilineal signatures in mouse lemur vocalizations

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Title
Modeling the origins of mammalian sociality: moderate evidence for matrilineal signatures in mouse lemur vocalizations
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Frontiers in Zoology, February 2014
DOI 10.1186/1742-9994-11-14
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Sharon E Kessler, Ute Radespiel, Alida I F Hasiniaina, Lisette M C Leliveld, Leanne T Nash, Elke Zimmermann

Abstract

Maternal kin selection is a driving force in the evolution of mammalian social complexity and it requires that kin are distinctive from nonkin. The transition from the ancestral state of asociality to the derived state of complex social groups is thought to have occurred via solitary foraging, in which individuals forage alone, but, unlike the asocial ancestors, maintain dispersed social networks via scent-marks and vocalizations. We hypothesize that matrilineal signatures in vocalizations were an important part of these networks. We used the solitary foraging gray mouse lemur (Microcebus murinus) as a model for ancestral solitary foragers and tested for matrilineal signatures in their calls, thus investigating whether such signatures are already present in solitary foragers and could have facilitated the kin selection thought to have driven the evolution of increased social complexity in mammals. Because agonism can be very costly, selection for matrilineal signatures in agonistic calls should help reduce agonism between unfamiliar matrilineal kin. We conducted this study on a well-studied population of wild mouse lemurs at Ankarafantsika National Park, Madagascar. We determined pairwise relatedness using seven microsatellite loci, matrilineal relatedness by sequencing the mitrochondrial D-loop, and sleeping group associations using radio-telemetry. We recorded agonistic calls during controlled social encounters and conducted a multi-parametric acoustic analysis to determine the spectral and temporal structure of the agonistic calls. We measured 10 calls for each of 16 females from six different matrilineal kin groups.

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Country Count As %
Germany 2 2%
Austria 1 1%
Brazil 1 1%
United Kingdom 1 1%
United States 1 1%
Unknown 83 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 21 24%
Student > Master 14 16%
Student > Bachelor 13 15%
Researcher 10 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 7%
Other 11 12%
Unknown 14 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 41 46%
Environmental Science 6 7%
Computer Science 3 3%
Psychology 3 3%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 2 2%
Other 14 16%
Unknown 20 22%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 February 2014.
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#14,600,553
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#453
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