Quantitative genetics of the use of conspecific and heterospecific social cues for breeding site choice.

ABSTRACT: Social information use for decision-making is common and affects ecological and evolutionary processes, including social aggregation, species coexistence, and cultural evolution. Despite increasing ecological knowledge on social information use, very little is known about its genetic basis and therefore its evolutionary potential. Genetic variation in a trait affecting an individual's social and nonsocial environment may have important implications for population dynamics, interspecific interactions, and, for expression of other, environmentally plastic traits. We estimated repeatability, additive genetic variance, and heritability of the use of conspecific and heterospecific social cues (abundance and breeding success) for breeding site choice in a population of wild collared flycatchers

SUBMITTER: Tolvanen J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7589285 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature