Evolution: How Not to Detect a Brood Parasite

Bruce E Lyon; Andrew G Zink

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2018.08.053

Evolution: How Not to Detect a Brood Parasite

Curr Biol. 2018 Oct 22;28(20):R1192-R1194. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.08.053.

Authors

Bruce E Lyon¹, Andrew G Zink²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Coastal Biology Building, 130 McAllister Way, University of California Santa Cruz, California 95060, USA. Electronic address: belyon@ucsc.edu.
² Department of Biology, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Ave, San Francisco, California 94132, USA.

PMID: 30352187
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.08.053

Abstract

An elegant study on social parasitism in digger wasps quantifies the costs and benefits of kin recognition and shows that recognizing non-kin comes at a cost. This supports 'Crozier's paradox' of why kin recognition genes are unlikely to evolve when rare alleles are selected against.

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MeSH terms

Alleles
Animals
Biological Evolution
Parasites*
Wasps*