Mate fidelity and intra-lineage polygyny in greater horseshoe bats

Stephen J. Rossiter (), Roger D. Ransome, Christopher G. Faulkes, Steven C. Le Comber and Gareth Jones
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Stephen J. Rossiter: University of London
Roger D. Ransome: University of Bristol
Christopher G. Faulkes: University of London
Steven C. Le Comber: University of London
Gareth Jones: University of Bristol

Nature, 2005, vol. 437, issue 7057, 408-411

Abstract: Same bat family... Kinship is an important factor in the maintenance of cooperative behaviours but strategies that increase kinship within social groups might be expected to have a downside in the shape of excessive inbreeding. Female greater horseshoe bats, however, have adopted two novel breeding behaviours that raise kinship in a colony without increasing inbreeding. Most females revisit and breed with specific individual males across the years; and mother and daughters regularly breed with the same male, yet nearly always avoid their blood relatives.

Date: 2005
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