@article{6fb0c4c7265f47e79bbc52d0fd5a05c0,
title = "Males with a mother living in their group have higher paternity success in bonobos but not chimpanzees",
abstract = "In many group-living mammals, mothers may increase the reproductive success of their daughters even after they are nutritionally independent and fully grown [1]. However, whether such maternal effects exist for adult sons is largely unknown. Here we show that males have higher paternity success when their mother is living in the group at the time of the offspring's conception in bonobos (N = 39 paternities from 4 groups) but not in chimpanzees (N = 263 paternities from 7 groups). These results are consistent with previous research showing a stronger role of mothers (and females more generally) in bonobo than chimpanzee societies. Surbeck et al. show direct maternal effects for adult sons in a species with male philopatry/female dispersal and co-dominance between the sexes. Males have higher paternity success when their mother is living in the group in bonobos but not in the closely related chimpanzees, where females are subordinate and intervene less in male conflict.",
author = "Martin Surbeck and Christophe Boesch and Catherine Crockford and Thompson, {Melissa Emery} and Takeshi Furuichi and Barbara Fruth and Gottfried Hohmann and Shintaro Ishizuka and Zarin Machanda and Muller, {Martin N.} and Anne Pusey and Tetsuya Sakamaki and Nahoko Tokuyama and Kara Walker and Richard Wrangham and Emily Wroblewski and Klaus Zuberb{\"u}hler and Linda Vigilant and Kevin Langergraber",
note = "Funding Information: We thank the responsible authorities in the host countries for permitting our research, including: Institut Congolaise pour la Conservation de la Nature, Minist{\`e}re de l{\textquoteright}Education Nationale, Democratic Republic of Congo; Ministry of Scientific Research and Technology and Centre de Recherche en Ecologie et Foresterie, Democratic Republic of Congo; Ivorian Ministry of Environment and Forests and Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research and the Office Ivoirien des Parcs et Reserves; the Tanzania National Parks, Wildlife Research Institute, and Commission for Science and Technology; the Uganda Wildlife Authority, Uganda National Council for Science and Technology and Makerere Biological Field Station. We thank Roger Mundry for statistical advice and the field staff of all projects for making long-term data collection possible. M.S. was supported by the Max Planck Society, the National Geographic Society and the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and partially supported by SNF. Funding Information: Work at LuiKotale was supported by the Max Planck Society, the L.S.B. Leakey Foundation, and National Geographic Society. Work in Lomako was supported by the Max Planck Society, the German Academic Exchange Service and the German Science Foundation. The study at Wamba is financially supported by the Japanese Ministry of the Environment Global Environment Research Fund (D-1007 to T.F.), the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (26257408 and 22255007 to T.F., 25304019 to C. Hashimoto., and 16H02753 and 25257407 to T. Yumoto), the JSPS Core-to-Core Program (2009–2011, 2012–2014, and 2015–2017 to T.F.), the JSPS HOPE Project of the PRI of Kyoto University (to T. Matsuzawa), the JSPS Strategic Young Overseas Visits Program for Accelerating Brain Circulation (S2508), the JSPS Grant-in-aid for JSPS fellows (17J09827 to S.I.) and the Leading Graduate Program in Primatology and Wildlife Science of Kyoto University. Long-term sampling at Kanyawara was supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation (grants BCS-0849380, BCS 1355014 and IOS-LTREB 1052693), National Institutes of Health grants AI058715 and R01AG049395, the Leakey Foundation, the National Geographic Society, and the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Long-term research at Ngogo was supported by NIH Grant R01AG049395, the Leakey Foundation, the President{\textquoteright}s Strategic Initiative Fund of Arizona State University, the Max Planck Society, and the Institute of Human Origins. The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland provides core support for the Budongo Conservation Field Station. The Max Planck Society supports research at Ta{\"i}. C.C. is supported by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union{\textquoteright}s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no. 679787). Fieldwork and sampling at Gombe is funded primarily by the Jane Goodall Institute with additional support from grants from the National Science Foundation (DBS-9021946, SBR-9319909, BCS-0648481, IOS- 1052693, IOS-1457260) and the National Institutes of Health (R01 AI50529, R01 AI58715, P30 AI27767). E.W. was supported by the Elmer C. Birney and Florence Rothman Fellowships, the Dayton and Wilkie Natural History Fund and the NIH/NIAID, Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) (F32 AI085959). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 Elsevier Ltd",
year = "2019",
month = may,
day = "20",
doi = "10.1016/j.cub.2019.03.040",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "29",
pages = "R354--R355",
journal = "Current Biology",
issn = "0960-9822",
publisher = "Cell Press",
number = "10",
}