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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ; 113(17): 4682-7, 2016 Apr 26.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27071114

RESUMO

Laughter is a nonverbal vocal expression that often communicates positive affect and cooperative intent in humans. Temporally coincident laughter occurring within groups is a potentially rich cue of affiliation to overhearers. We examined listeners' judgments of affiliation based on brief, decontextualized instances of colaughter between either established friends or recently acquainted strangers. In a sample of 966 participants from 24 societies, people reliably distinguished friends from strangers with an accuracy of 53-67%. Acoustic analyses of the individual laughter segments revealed that, across cultures, listeners' judgments were consistently predicted by voicing dynamics, suggesting perceptual sensitivity to emotionally triggered spontaneous production. Colaughter affords rapid and accurate appraisals of affiliation that transcend cultural and linguistic boundaries, and may constitute a universal means of signaling cooperative relationships.


Assuntos
Afeto , Percepção Auditiva/fisiologia , Comportamento Cooperativo , Amigos/etnologia , Amigos/psicologia , Riso/psicologia , Adulto , Feminino , Humanos , Internacionalidade , Masculino , Comunicação não Verbal/psicologia , Adulto Jovem
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Proc Biol Sci ; 281(1783): 20133259, 2014 May 22.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24695427

RESUMO

The extent of female multiple mating (polyandry) can strongly impact on the intensity of sexual selection, sexual conflict, and the evolution of cooperation and sociality. More subtly, polyandry may protect populations against intragenomic conflicts that result from the invasion of deleterious selfish genetic elements (SGEs). SGEs commonly impair sperm production, and so are likely to be unsuccessful in sperm competition, potentially reducing their transmission in polyandrous populations. Here, we test this prediction in nature. We demonstrate a heritable latitudinal cline in the degree of polyandry in the fruitfly Drosophila pseudoobscura across the USA, with northern population females remating more frequently in both the field and the laboratory. High remating was associated with low frequency of a sex-ratio-distorting meiotic driver in natural populations. In the laboratory, polyandry directly controls the frequency of the driver by undermining its transmission. Hence we suggest that the cline in polyandry represents an important contributor to the cline in sex ratio in nature. Furthermore, as the meiotic driver causes sex ratio bias, variation in polyandry may ultimately determine population sex ratio across the USA, a dramatic impact of female mating decisions. As SGEs are ubiquitous it is likely that the reduction of intragenomic conflict by polyandry is widespread.


Assuntos
Drosophila/fisiologia , Genoma de Inseto , Preferência de Acasalamento Animal , Meiose , Razão de Masculinidade , Animais , DNA/genética , Drosophila/genética , Feminino , Padrões de Herança , Masculino , Sequências Repetitivas de Ácido Nucleico
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Proc Biol Sci ; 280(1770): 20131875, 2013 Nov 07.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24048156

RESUMO

Selfish genes demonstrate transmission bias and invade sexual populations despite conferring no benefit to their hosts. While the molecular genetics and evolutionary dynamics of selfish genes are reasonably well characterized, their effects on hosts are not. Homing endonuclease genes (HEGs) are one well-studied family of selfish genes that are assumed to be benign. However, we show that carrying HEGs is costly for Saccharomyces cerevisiae, demonstrating that these genetic elements are not necessarily benign but maybe parasitic. We estimate a selective load of approximately 1-2% in 'natural' niches. The second aspect we examine is the ability of HEGs to affect hosts' sexual behaviour. As all selfish genes critically rely on sex for spread, then any selfish gene correlated with increased host sexuality will enjoy a transmission advantage. While classic parasites are known to manipulate host behaviour, we are not aware of any evidence showing a selfish gene is capable of affecting host promiscuity. The data presented here show a selfish element may increase the propensity of its eukaryote host to undergo sex and along with increased rates of non-Mendelian inheritance, this may counterbalance mitotic selective load and promote spread. Demonstration that selfish genes are correlated with increased promiscuity in eukaryotes connects with ideas suggesting that selfish genes promoted the evolution of sex initially.


Assuntos
Quercus/microbiologia , Sequências Repetitivas de Ácido Nucleico , Saccharomyces cerevisiae/fisiologia , Vitis/microbiologia , Evolução Molecular , Aptidão Genética , ATPases Translocadoras de Prótons/genética , ATPases Translocadoras de Prótons/metabolismo , Reprodução , Saccharomyces cerevisiae/genética , Proteínas de Saccharomyces cerevisiae/genética , Proteínas de Saccharomyces cerevisiae/metabolismo , Simbiose
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Sci Rep ; 13(1): 4969, 2023 04 11.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37041216

RESUMO

People vary both in their embrace of their society's traditions, and in their perception of hazards as salient and necessitating a response. Over evolutionary time, traditions have offered avenues for addressing hazards, plausibly resulting in linkages between orientations toward tradition and orientations toward danger. Emerging research documents connections between traditionalism and threat responsivity, including pathogen-avoidance motivations. Additionally, because hazard-mitigating behaviors can conflict with competing priorities, associations between traditionalism and pathogen avoidance may hinge on contextually contingent tradeoffs. The COVID-19 pandemic provides a real-world test of the posited relationship between traditionalism and hazard avoidance. Across 27 societies (N = 7844), we find that, in a majority of countries, individuals' endorsement of tradition positively correlates with their adherence to costly COVID-19-avoidance behaviors; accounting for some of the conflicts that arise between public health precautions and other objectives further strengthens this evidence that traditionalism is associated with greater attention to hazards.


Assuntos
COVID-19 , Humanos , Pandemias , Motivação , Saúde Pública
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iScience ; 24(4): 102280, 2021 Apr 23.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33817583

RESUMO

Larger easily visible animals and plants are negatively affected by agrochemicals used for intensive food production, but we do not understand the general spatial and temporal effects of agrochemicals on the multitudes of bacteria, fungi, and small invertebrate animals that underpin ecosystem productivity. We sequenced the 16S, ITS2, and COI DNA barcode regions from 648 New Zealand vineyard soil samples managed under either conventional or low-agrochemical-input conservation approaches across two regions and three seasons in 1 year and discovered at least 170,000 phylotypes (taxa) with >97% genetic identity. Management approach correlated with a significant 2%-10% difference in the abundances of phylotypes that differed over regions and seasons. Although the data show that agrochemicals do not have a large effect on soil biodiversity on average, the important finding is that the magnitude of impact differs between taxa types and locations, and some taxa most affected also influence the quality of agricultural produce.

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Biol Lett ; 6(4): 458-61, 2010 Aug 23.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-20164080

RESUMO

Many studies have focused on the effects of anthropogenic noise on animal communication, but only a few have looked at its effect on other behavioural systems. We designed a playback experiment to test the effect of noise on predation risk assessment. We found that in response to boat motor playback, Caribbean hermit crabs (Coenobita clypeatus) allowed a simulated predator to approach closer before they hid. Two hypotheses may explain how boat noise affected risk assessment: it masked an approaching predator's sound; and/or it reallocated some of the crabs' finite attention, effectively distracting them, and thus preventing them from responding to an approaching threat. We found no support for the first hypothesis: a silent looming object still got closer during boat motor playbacks than during silence. However, we found support for the attentional hypothesis: when we added flashing lights to the boat motor noise to further distract the hermit crabs, we were able to approach the crabs more closely than with the noise alone. Anthropogenic sounds may thus distract prey and make them more vulnerable to predation.


Assuntos
Anomuros/fisiologia , Atenção , Comportamento Animal/fisiologia , Reação de Fuga/fisiologia , Ruído/efeitos adversos , Estimulação Acústica , Animais , Atividades Humanas , Humanos , Risco , Ilhas Virgens Americanas
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