Female northern myotis (Myotis septentrionalis) that roost together are related
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Selection for cooperation, including nepotism, acts on individuals and so quantifying the genetic relationships between individuals that interact often is fundamental to understanding the evolution of sociality. Compared with stable kin groups, relatively little is known about the genetic relationships within groups with fission–fusion dynamics, and in particular between pairs that form long-term relationships. We examined the genetic relationships among female northern myotis, Myotis septentrionalis, that roost in maternity colonies consisting of multiple social groups, within which pairs form long-term relationships (i.e., familiar pairs). Using microsatellites and mitochondrial DNA, we found that females within colonies were not more closely related to one another than they were to females in neighboring colonies at the nuclear level, but they were at the maternal level. Females within social groups were more closely related than expected by chance at the nuclear but not at the maternal level. Furthermore, a comparison of pairwise associations and pairwise relatedness revealed that familiar pairs were more closely related than expected by chance at both the nuclear and maternal level. Kin selection may, therefore, play a role in shaping relationships within groups with fission–fusion dynamics.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.014 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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