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SUBMITTER: Surbeck M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7335732 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Surbeck Martin M Boesch Christophe C Crockford Catherine C Thompson Melissa Emery ME Furuichi Takeshi T Fruth Barbara B Hohmann Gottfried G Ishizuka Shintaro S Machanda Zarin Z Muller Martin N MN Pusey Anne A Sakamaki Tetsuya T Tokuyama Nahoko N Walker Kara K Wrangham Richard R Wroblewski Emily E Zuberbühler Klaus K Vigilant Linda L Langergraber Kevin K
Current biology : CB 20190501 10
In many group-living mammals, mothers may increase the reproductive success of their daughters even after they are nutritionally independent and fully grown [1]. However, whether such maternal effects exist for adult sons is largely unknown. Here we show that males have higher paternity success when their mother is living in the group at the time of the offspring's conception in bonobos (N = 39 paternities from 4 groups) but not in chimpanzees (N = 263 paternities from 7 groups). These results a ...[more]