Data from: Genetic variance and indirect genetic effects for affiliative social behavior in a wild primate

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  • Affiliative social behaviors are linked to fitness components in multiple species. However, the role of genetic variance in shaping such behaviors remains largely unknown, limiting our understanding of how affiliative behaviors can respond to natural selection. Here, we employed the ‘animal model’ to estimate environmental and genetic sources of variance and covariance in grooming behavior in the well-studied Amboseli wild baboon population. We found that the tendency for a female baboon to groom others (‘grooming given’) is heritable (h2=0.22± 0.048), and that several environmental variables – including dominance rank and the availability of kin as grooming partners – contribute to variance in this grooming behavior. We also detected small but measurable variance due to the indirect genetic effect of partner identity on the amount of grooming given within dyadic grooming partnerships. The indirect and direct genetic effects for grooming given were positively correlated (r=0.74± 0.09). Our results provide insight into the evolvability of affiliative behavior in wild animals, including the possibility for correlations between direct and indirect genetic effects to accelerate the response to selection. As such they provide novel information about the genetic architecture of social behavior in nature, with important implications for the evolution of cooperation and reciprocity. ... [Read More]

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  • McLean, E. M., Moorad, J. A., Tung, J., Archie, E. A., & Alberts, S. C. (2023). Data from: Genetic variance and indirect genetic effects for affiliative social behavior in a wild primate. Duke Research Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.7924/r4c252v1k
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  • 10.7924/r4c252v1k
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  • ark:/87924/r4c252v1k
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  • January 1983 to June 2017
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  • Kenya, , Kenya
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  • McLean, E. M., Moorad, J. A., Tung, J., Archie, E. A., & Alberts, S. C. (2023). Data from: Genetic variance and indirect genetic effects for affiliative social behavior in a wild primate. Evolution, 77(7), p 1607-21,  https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpad066
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  • National Science Foundation
  • National Institutes of Health
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  • NSF IOS 1456832
  • NIH R01AG053308
  • NIH R01AG053330
  • NIH R01AG075914
  • NIH R01HD088558
  • NIH P01AG031719
  • NSF IOS 1501971
  • NIH R01AG071684
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  • Data from: Genetic variance and indirect genetic effects for affiliative social behavior in a wild primate
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file details README.rtf 2023-04-07 Public Download
file details Aggregate Grooming Data.csv 2023-04-07 Public Download
file details Dyadic Grooming Data.csv 2023-04-07 Public Download
file details Pedigree.csv 2023-04-07 Public Download

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