Maternal care and kin recognition of the red-backed salamander, Plethodon cinereus. Wareing, K. Master's thesis, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, New York, U.S.A., 1997. abstract bibtex Kin selection requires that organisms have a mechanism for directing benefits toward related individuals, so the ability to identify more genetically related individuals is clearly beneficial. Some adult red-backed salamanders, Plethodon cinereus, show extended parental care and selective tolerance of juvenile salamanders in their territories. We used the offspring of hormonally induced female red-backed salamanders, Plethodon cinereus, to determine whether females would show discrimination between their offspring and the offspring of another female, whether a female’s recognition of her offspring depended on long-term post-hatch experience with that offspring, and whether juvenile P. cinereus prefer a substrate containing their mother’s odors over a substrate that contained the odors of another postpartum female. Females spent significantly more time in contact with their own young than the young of another female, and did not differ in their behavior toward offspring with whom they had long-term versus limited post-hatch experience. Juveniles showed no preference for substrates containing their mother’s odor over substrates containing the odors of another female. When combined with previous studies, these results suggest that P. cinereus can recognize their parents and offspring, that kin-recognition cues are probably chemical, and responses to social cues such as substrate borne chemicals might vary geographically depending on whether adult P. cinereus are territorial.
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address = {Binghamton, New York, U.S.A.},
title = {Maternal care and kin recognition of the red-backed salamander, {Plethodon} cinereus},
abstract = {Kin selection requires that organisms have a mechanism for directing benefits toward related individuals, so the ability to identify more genetically related individuals is clearly beneficial. Some adult red-backed salamanders, Plethodon cinereus, show extended parental care and selective tolerance of juvenile salamanders in their territories. We used the offspring of hormonally induced female red-backed salamanders, Plethodon cinereus, to determine whether females would show discrimination between their offspring and the offspring of another female, whether a female’s recognition of her offspring depended on long-term post-hatch experience with that offspring, and whether juvenile P. cinereus prefer a substrate containing their mother’s odors over a substrate that contained the odors of another postpartum female. Females spent significantly more time in contact with their own young than the young of another female, and did not differ in their behavior toward offspring with whom they had long-term versus limited post-hatch experience. Juveniles showed no preference for substrates containing their mother’s odor over substrates containing the odors of another female. When combined with previous studies, these results suggest that P. cinereus can recognize their parents and offspring, that kin-recognition cues are probably chemical, and responses to social cues such as substrate borne chemicals might vary geographically depending on whether adult P. cinereus are territorial.},
school = {State University of New York at Binghamton},
author = {Wareing, Kathy},
year = {1997},
}
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