Becoming more like your mate: hormonal similarity reduces divorce rates in a wild songbird

Ouyang, Jenny Q.; Oers, Kees van; Quetting, Michael; Hau, Michaela

doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.09.032

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“…Endocrine synchrony in cooperative groups has not yet been studied, but evidence from comparable social settings suggests this possibility. For example, endocrine synchrony is associated with elevated parental cooperation (Hirschenhauser, Mostl, & Kotrschal, 1999;Ouyang, van Oers, Quetting, & Hau, 2014;Weiss, Kotrschal, Mostl, & Hirschenhauser, 2010). Physiologically synchronized individuals may exhibit less conflict with each other and may be more successful in conflicts with others (Soares et al, 2010).…”

Section: Evidence For the Effect Of Gcs On Social Coordination Amonmentioning

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Associations between glucocorticoids and sociality across a continuum of vertebrate social behavior

Raulo

Dantzer

2018

Ecology and Evolution

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The causes and consequences of individual differences in animal behavior and stress physiology are increasingly studied in wild animals, yet the possibility that stress physiology underlies individual variation in social behavior has received less attention. In this review, we bring together these study areas and focus on understanding how the activity of the vertebrate neuroendocrine stress axis (HPA‐axis) may underlie individual differences in social behavior in wild animals. We first describe a continuum of vertebrate social behaviors spanning from initial social tendencies (proactive behavior) to social behavior occurring in reproductive contexts (parental care, sexual pair‐bonding) and lastly to social behavior occurring in nonreproductive contexts (nonsexual bonding, group‐level cooperation). We then perform a qualitative review of existing literature to address the correlative and causal association between measures of HPA‐axis activity (glucocorticoid levels or GCs) and each of these types of social behavior. As expected, elevated HPA‐axis activity can inhibit social behavior associated with initial social tendencies (approaching conspecifics) and reproduction. However, elevated HPA‐axis activity may also enhance more elaborate social behavior outside of reproductive contexts, such as alloparental care behavior. In addition, the effect of GCs on social behavior can depend upon the sociality of the stressor (cause of increase in GCs) and the severity of stress (extent of increase in GCs). Our review shows that the while the associations between stress responses and sociality are diverse, the role of HPA‐axis activity behind social behavior may shift toward more facilitating and less inhibiting in more social species, providing insight into how stress physiology and social systems may co‐evolve.

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Section: Evidence For the Effect Of Gcs On Social Coordination Amonmentioning

confidence: 99%

Associations between glucocorticoids and sociality across a continuum of vertebrate social behavior

Raulo

Dantzer

2018

Ecology and Evolution

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“…Ouyang et al . , ) and/or the similar age of the two birds in the pair (Barbraud & Barbraud , Weiß et al . , Hirschenhauser ).…”

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“…The study of Ouyang et al . (), which is also correlational and performed over a restricted time‐period, suggests the possibility that hormonal mechanisms may be also partially under sexual selection. Both studies clearly show that there is a great need for future studies focusing on the endocrine similarity of the partners, preferentially being performed over a wider time‐scale and/or using an experimental approach.…”

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Assortative mating patterns of multiple phenotypic traits in a long‐lived seabird

Wojczulanis‐Jakubas

Drobniak

Jakubas

et al. 2018

Ibis

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Choosing the right mate is crucial for successful breeding, particularly in monogamous species with long and extensive bi‐parental care, and when the breeding pair is presumed to last many seasons. We investigated the degree of assortative mating in the Little Auk Alle alle, a long‐lived seabird with long‐term pair bonds and bi‐parental care for fixed (morphological) and labile (physiological, behavioural) traits. Using randomization tests, we suggest assortative mating with respect to wing length, extent of the white area on the upper eyelid and hormonal stress response (the difference between stress‐induced and baseline corticosterone levels). We discuss how the assortative mating patterns that we found in the Little Auk may be adaptive.

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“…Social and sexual behaviours are often regulated by hormones (Becker et al 2002;Oliveira 2009) and hence to coordinate reproductive activities, partners should coordinate the regulation of their hormone profiles (Hirschenhauser 2012). For instance, in greylag geese (Anser anser) and great tits (Parus major), partners showing similar testosterone and corticosterone profiles (and personalities in tits) during nesting care and throughout the year are less likely to divorce and achieve a higher reproductive success (Both et al 2005;Hirschenhauser et al 1999;Ouyang et al 2014;Weiss et al 2010). Inversely, in convict cichlids, Amatitlania siquid, partners with dissimilar glucocorticoid (cortisol) levels produced more eggs than partners with similar glucocorticoid levels (Schweitzer et al 2017).…”

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Reproductive success in the barn owl is linked to partner compatibility in glucocorticoid levels

Béziers

Jenni

Roulin³

et al. 2019

Preprint

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In biparental species, reproductive success depends not only on the quality of the parents, the care they each provide and many environmental factors such as territory quality and food availability, but also on the ability of the parents to collaborate and divide reproductive tasks.Because hormones, such as corticosterone (CORT), modulate physiological and behavioural functions that are associated to reproductive success, hormonal compatibility between pair members is likely to have consequences on reproductive success. Here, we investigated in the barn owl (Tyto alba) whether baseline and stress-induced CORT levels are correlated between breeding partners and whether this correlation is associated to fitness parameters (i.e., clutch size, offspring number and body mass). We found that the combination of CORT levels in the two partners predicts reproductive parameters. Pairs with similar baseline CORT levels during incubation produced more fledglings than pairs with dissimilar baseline CORT levels. On the other hand, pairs showing dissimilar stress-induced CORT responses during the period of offspring rearing produced more fledglings than pairs with similar stress-induced responses. Offspring body mass was associated only with maternal (baseline and stress-induced) CORT levels and depended on the context with baseline CORT being potentially adjusted to environmental conditions but also to the energetic demand of reproduction. Hence, to produce large broods good quality mothers might increase their baseline CORT to meet the energetic demand of the brood, while mothers in unfavourable habitats may have smaller broods but still need to increase baseline CORT to cope with the environmental challenges. Taken together, the results show that the association between parental CORT levels and reproductive success are context-dependent and rely on the combination of parental CORT levels. Assuming that CORT levels reflect investment in parental care, our study suggests that parents coordinate their reproductive activities in a complex way to ensure a high reproductive success.

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Becoming more like your mate: hormonal similarity reduces divorce rates in a wild songbird

Cited by 36 publications

References 57 publications

Associations between glucocorticoids and sociality across a continuum of vertebrate social behavior

Associations between glucocorticoids and sociality across a continuum of vertebrate social behavior

Assortative mating patterns of multiple phenotypic traits in a long‐lived seabird

Reproductive success in the barn owl is linked to partner compatibility in glucocorticoid levels

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