Absolute, not relative brain size correlates with sociality in ground squirrels

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Nalezeny alternativní kódy

RIV/60076658:12310/16:43890643

Výsledek na webu

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.2725" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.2725</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.2725" target="_blank" >10.1098/rspb.2015.2725</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Absolute, not relative brain size correlates with sociality in ground squirrels

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The social brain hypothesis (SBH) contends that cognitive demands associated with living in cohesive social groups favour the evolution of large brains. Although the correlation between relative brain size and sociality reported in various groups of birds and mammals provides broad empirical support for this hypothesis, it has never been tested in rodents, the largest mammalian order. Here, we test the predictions of the SBH in the ground squirrels from the tribe Marmotini. These rodents exhibit levels of sociality ranging from solitary and single-family female kin groups to egalitarian polygynous harems but feature similar ecologies and life-history traits. We found little support for the association between increase in sociality and increase in relative brain size. Thus, sociality does not drive the evolution of encephalization in this group of rodents, a finding inconsistent with the SBH. However, body mass and absolute brain size increase with sociality. These findings suggest that increased social complexity in the ground squirrels goes hand in hand with larger body mass and brain size, which are tightly coupled to each other.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Absolute, not relative brain size correlates with sociality in ground squirrels

Popis výsledku anglicky

The social brain hypothesis (SBH) contends that cognitive demands associated with living in cohesive social groups favour the evolution of large brains. Although the correlation between relative brain size and sociality reported in various groups of birds and mammals provides broad empirical support for this hypothesis, it has never been tested in rodents, the largest mammalian order. Here, we test the predictions of the SBH in the ground squirrels from the tribe Marmotini. These rodents exhibit levels of sociality ranging from solitary and single-family female kin groups to egalitarian polygynous harems but feature similar ecologies and life-history traits. We found little support for the association between increase in sociality and increase in relative brain size. Thus, sociality does not drive the evolution of encephalization in this group of rodents, a finding inconsistent with the SBH. However, body mass and absolute brain size increase with sociality. These findings suggest that increased social complexity in the ground squirrels goes hand in hand with larger body mass and brain size, which are tightly coupled to each other.

Druh

J_x - Nezařazeno - Článek v odborném periodiku (Jimp, Jsc a Jost)

CEP obor

EG - Zoologie

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

Výsledek vznikl pri realizaci vícero projektů. Více informací v záložce Projekty.

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2016

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

ISSN

0962-8452

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

283

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1827

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

7

Strana od-do

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Kód UT WoS článku

000375732500018

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-84961590843