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Jan Komdeur
Researcher at University of Groningen
Publications - 327
Citations - 13605
Jan Komdeur is an academic researcher from University of Groningen. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Seychelles warbler. The author has an hindex of 59, co-authored 307 publications receiving 12383 citations. Previous affiliations of Jan Komdeur include University of Melbourne & University of Cambridge.
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Extreme adaptive modification in sex ratio of the Seychelles warbler's eggs
TL;DR: It is shown that biased hatching sex ratios are caused by biased production and not by differential embryo mortality, and that unhelped breeding pairs on low-quality territories produce 77% sons, whereas unhelping pairs on high- quality territories produce 13% sons.
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Importance of habitat saturation and territory quality for evolution of cooperative breeding in the Seychelles warbler
TL;DR: Habitat saturation and territory quality are both involved in the evolution of cooperative breeding, and the results support the 'benefits of philopatry,5,6 hypothesis, which emphasizes the lifetime inclusive fitness benefits from staying at home.
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Ecological constraints, life history traits and the evolution of cooperative breeding.
Ben J. Hatchwell,Jan Komdeur +1 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that to identify the key differences between cooperative and noncooperative species, a broad constraints hypothesis that incorporates ecological and life history traits in a single measure of 'turnover of breeding opportunities' may provide the most promising avenue for future comparative studies.
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Parentage assignment and extra-group paternity in a cooperative breeder: the Seychelles warbler (Acrocephalus sechellensis)
TL;DR: Parentage analyses showed that subordinate ‘helper’ females as well as the dominant ‘primary” females laid eggs in communal nests, indicating that the Seychelles warbler has an intermediate level of female reproductive skew, in between the alternative extremes of helper‐at‐the‐nest and joint nesting systems.
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Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality
Patrick Abbot,Jun Abe,John Alcock,Samuel Alizon,João Alpedrinha,Malte Andersson,Jean-Baptiste André,Minus van Baalen,Francois Balloux,Sigal Balshine,Nicholas H. Barton,Leo W. Beukeboom,Jay M. Biernaskie,Trine Bilde,Gerald Borgia,Michael D. Breed,Sam P. Brown,Redouan Bshary,Angus Buckling,Nancy Tyler Burley,Max N. Burton-Chellew,Michael A. Cant,Michel Chapuisat,Eric L. Charnov,Tim H. Clutton-Brock,Andrew Cockburn,Blaine J. Cole,Nick Colegrave,Leda Cosmides,Iain D. Couzin,Jerry A. Coyne,Scott Creel,Bernard J. Crespi,Robert L. Curry,Sasha R. X. Dall,Troy Day,Janis L. Dickinson,Lee Alan Dugatkin,Claire El Mouden,Stephen T. Emlen,Jay D. Evans,Régis Ferrière,Jeremy Field,Susanne Foitzik,Kevin R. Foster,William A. Foster,Charles W. Fox,Juergen Gadau,Sylvain Gandon,Andy Gardner,Michael G. Gardner,Thomas Getty,Michael A. D. Goodisman,Alan Grafen,Richard K. Grosberg,Christina M. Grozinger,Pierre-Henri Gouyon,Darryl T. Gwynne,Paul H. Harvey,Ben J. Hatchwell,Jürgen Heinze,Heikki Helanterä,Ken R. Helms,Kim Hill,Natalie Jiricny,Rufus A. Johnstone,Alex Kacelnik,E. Toby Kiers,Hanna Kokko,Jan Komdeur,Judith Korb,Daniel J. C. Kronauer,Rolf Kümmerli,Laurent Lehmann,Timothy A. Linksvayer,Sébastien Lion,Bruce E. Lyon,James A. R. Marshall,Richard McElreath,Yannis Michalakis,Richard E. Michod,Douglas W. Mock,Thibaud Monnin,Robert Montgomerie,Allen J. Moore,Ulrich G. Mueller,Ronald Noë,Samir Okasha,Pekka Pamilo,Geoff A. Parker,Jes S. Pedersen,Ido Pen,David W. Pfennig,David C. Queller,Daniel J. Rankin,Sarah E. Reece,Hudson K. Reeve,Max Reuter,Gilbert Roberts,Simon K. A. Robson,Denis Roze,François Rousset,Olav Rueppell,Joel L. Sachs,Lorenzo A. Santorelli,Paul Schmid-Hempel,Michael P. Schwarz,Thomas C. Scott-Phillips,Janet Shellmann-Sherman,Paul W. Sherman,David M. Shuker,jeff smith,Joseph C. Spagna,Beverly I. Strassmann,Andrew V. Suarez,Liselotte Sundström,Michael Taborsky,Peter D. Taylor,Graham J. Thompson,John Tooby,Neil D. Tsutsui,Kazuki Tsuji,Stefano Turillazzi,Francisco Úbeda,Edward L. Vargo,Bernard Voelkl,Tom Wenseleers,Stuart A. West,Mary Jane West-Eberhard,David F. Westneat,Diane C. Wiernasz,Geoff Wild,Richard Wrangham,Andrew J. Young,David W. Zeh,David W. Zeh,Jeanne A. Zeh,Andrew G. Zink +137 more
TL;DR: It is argued that inclusive fitness theory has been of little value in explained the natural world, and that it has led to negligible progress in explaining the evolution of eusociality, but these arguments are based upon a misunderstanding of evolutionary theory and a misrepresentation of the empirical literature.