<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><br><div>Inicio del mensaje reenviado:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; color: rgb(127, 127, 127); "><b>De:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">"Mario Cabrejos" <<a href="mailto:casal@infotex.com.pe">casal@infotex.com.pe</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; color: rgb(127, 127, 127); "><b>Asunto:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><b>Male reproductive success increases with alliance size in Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; color: rgb(127, 127, 127); "><b>Fecha:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">10 de octubre de 2011 15:18:58 GMT-05:00<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; color: rgb(127, 127, 127); "><b>Para:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">"LISTA OANNES" <<a href="mailto:oannes@lista.oannes.org.pe">oannes@lista.oannes.org.pe</a>><br></span></div><br><br><font size="2" face="Arial"><div class="articleTitle" sizset="5" sizcache="3" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><div id="cover" class="journal" sizset="5" sizcache="3"><div class="imgShadow" sizset="5" sizcache="3">Journal of Animal Ecology</div></div><div id="publishedOnlineDate" sizset="5" sizcache="3">Article first published online: 7 OCT 2011</div><div id="doi" class="citation articleInformationHeader" sizset="5" sizcache="3" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2011.01910.x</div></div><div class="articleTitle" sizset="5" sizcache="3" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> </div><div class="articleTitle" sizset="5" sizcache="3" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><font size="4">Male reproductive success increases with alliance size in Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (<em>Tursiops aduncus</em>)</font></div><div id="cr1" class="citation articleInformationHeader" sizset="5" sizcache="3" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Joanna Wiszniewski<sup><font size="1">1,*</font></sup>, Shannon Corrigan<sup><font size="1">1</font></sup>, Luciano B. Beheregaray<sup><font size="1">2</font></sup>, Luciana M. Möller<sup><font size="1">2</font></sup></div><div id="publishedOnlineDate" sizset="5" sizcache="3"><sup>1</sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia<sup>2</sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>School of Biological Sciences, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia. Correspondence: Joanna Wiszniewski, E-mail:<a title="Link to email address" href="mailto:jo.wiszniewski@gmail.com" shape="rect"><font color="#007e8a">jo.wiszniewski@gmail.com</font></a></div><div id="additionalInformation" class="citation articleInformationHeader" sizset="5" sizcache="3" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><div style="clear: left; "><ul id="footnotes"><font color="#007e8a"></font></ul><div id="publicationHistoryDetails" jquery1318277765978="10"><h4>Summary</h4></div></div></div><div id="productContent"><div id="fulltext" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><div id="abstract"><div class="para"><p><b>1.</b> Determining the extent of variation in male mating strategies and reproductive success is necessary to understand the fitness benefits of social and cooperative behaviour.</p></div><div class="para"><p><b>2.</b> This study assesses the reproductive success of male Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins in a small embayment population where different behavioural strategies of males have previously been identified. Parentage for 44 sampled calves was examined using 23 microsatellite loci and one mitochondrial DNA marker. Our candidate parent pool of 70 males and 64 females contained individuals sampled from both the embayment and adjacent coastal populations.</p></div><div class="para"><p><b>3.</b> A moderate level of polygyny was detected in our sample. We assigned paternity of 23 calves to 12 males at the strict 95% confidence level and an additional nine calves to two males at the 80% confidence level. The majority (92%) of successful males were identified as residents to the embayment, and 46% of offspring were located within the same social group or community as their father.</p></div><div class="para"><p><b>4.</b> Our results suggest that the size of alliances was the best predictor of reproductive success for males in this population, while the strength of association among allied males, alliance stability and male ranging patterns had little influence. In line with predictions for male alliances formed between unrelated individuals, we found that reproductive skew within alliances was not large.</p></div><div class="para"><p><b>5.</b> Together, our genetic and behavioural analyses demonstrate that alliance formation between male dolphins is a successful strategy to enhance reproductive output.</p></div></div></div></div></font><br></span></blockquote></div><br></body></html>