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SUBMITTER: Grinsted L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5286204 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Grinsted Lena L Field Jeremy J
Nature communications 20170124
Biological market theory is potentially useful for understanding helping behaviour in animal societies. It predicts that competition for trading partners will affect the value of commodities exchanged. It has gained empirical support in cooperative breeders, where subordinates help dominant breeders in exchange for group membership, but so far without considering one crucial aspect: outside options. We find support for a biological market in paper wasps, Polistes dominula. We first show that fem ...[more]