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philopatry

the tendency of an animal to remain in its home area, or, in the case of a migrant, to return to it.
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We know very little about populations from fragmented habitats, although we do know that island populations of a variety of species are highly philopatric (Stobo and McLaren 1975, Eliason 1986, Arcese 1989, Nagata 1993, Part 1996).
Philopatry, natal dispersal, and inbreeding avoidance in an island of population of Savannah Sparrows
1984) or if the philopatric dispersal of offspring leads to sibling competition (Maynard Smith 1978).
The effect of sperm competition on male gain curves in a colonial marine invertebrate
Among-coterie genetic differentiation likely resulted from high relatedness of philopatric females and their progeny within coteries, and may contribute to the evolutionary maintenance of social groups (Chesser et al.
Do black-tailed prairie dogs minimize inbreeding?
We restricted analyses to females, because they are philopatric after attainment of breeding age for ducks, in general (Rohwer and Anderson 1988), and for Common Pochards at Engure Marsh, in particular (Blums et al.
Tests for senescent decline in annual survival probabilities of Common Pochards, Aythya ferina
Significant microgeographic genetic structure has been detected in several independent colony-founding wasp or bee species that tend to be philopatric (Metcalf 1980; Crozier et al.
Microsatellites reveal high population viscosity and limited dispersal in the ant Formica paralugubris
We quantified the exchange of birds between the main study area, Wytham Woods, and those nesting in hedgerows and small woodlots around Wytham (the "surrounding area"), and evaluated whether there was phenotypic variation between dispersing and philopatric birds.
Natal dispersal of great tits in a patchy environment
In addition, gender-biased dispersal, in which females are relatively philopatric, can impose geographical structure on the distribution of mtDNA variation, whereas nuclear-gene flow through male migration homogenizes the distribution of nuclear variation (e.g., Melnick and Hoelzer 1992).
Inferring phylogenies from mtDNA variation: mitochondrial-gene trees versus nuclear-gene trees revisited
There is also no difference in philopatry between sexes, which would appear as a higher local survival for the more philopatric sex.
Annual variation in survival and breeding probability in Greater Flamingos
(The geographic speciation model depicted in Figure 1B is one of numerous variations on the theme and is probably not the most realistic example nor the example where congruence between the mt-haplotype tree and the species tree is most probable relative to that of a nuclear-gene tree.) Thus, Hoelzer is correct that the mt-genome could have a higher effective population size in circumstances where local populations are small and females are more philopatric than males, but it does not logically follow that the mt-haplotype tree will have a lesser probability of congruence with the species tree.
Mitochondrial-gene trees versus nuclear-gene trees, a reply to Hoelzer
That young eagles are highly philopatric, with more than 84% returning to the natal population (Ferrer 1993b), is consistent with this suggestion.
Density-dependent fecundity by habitat heterogeneity in an increasing population of Spanish imperial eagles
A recent review of philopatric marine invertebrate species provided evidence for self-fertilization in 17% and suggested that many more species may be biparentally inbred (Knowlton and Jackson 1993).
The effects of contrasting modes of fertilization on levels of inbreeding in the marine invertebrate genus Corella
Their core group of species, which showed similar pattern among locations, included a viviparous species (potentially philopatric) and one with facultatively pelagic juveniles that had the highest dispersal potential.
Gene flow and larval duration in seven species of fish from the Great Barrier Reef
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