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Parental care: shaped by parent–offspring conflict and co-adaptation

Coordinatore	RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN    more  Organization address address: Broerstraat 5 city: GRONINGEN postcode: 9712CP contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Dick Cognome: Veldhuis Email: send email Telefono: +31 50 3634142 Fax: +31 50 3634500
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Netherlands [NL]
Totale costo	75˙000 €
EC contributo	75˙000 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-2011-CIG
Funding Scheme	MC-CIG
Anno di inizio	2012
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2012-01-01   -   2014-12-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN  Organization address address: Broerstraat 5 city: GRONINGEN postcode: 9712CP contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Dick Cognome: Veldhuis Email: send email Telefono: +31 50 3634142 Fax: +31 50 3634500	NL (GRONINGEN)	coordinator	75˙000.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Interactions between caring parents and their offspring are among the most widespread and fundamental social behaviours. Surprisingly, however, the underlying genetics, even of well-studied model systems, are largely unknown. Traditionally, behavioural ecologists studying the evolution of parental care have typically focused on how evolutionary conflict between parents and offspring has shaped parental provisioning and offspring solicitation behaviours, while ignoring the underlying genetic mechanisms. Recently, a quantitative genetics perspective has emerged that aims to explicitly model and measure the quantitative genetics underlying parent–offspring interactions, and which emphasises the potential importance of co-adaptation of offspring demand and parental supply in the evolution of parent–offspring interactions. Such parent–offspring co-adaptation is predicted to lead to genetic covariation between parental provisioning and offspring solicitation behaviours. The co-adaptation hypothesis furthermore predicts the presence of fitness costs to parents and/or offspring if the phenotypic correlation between parental and offspring behaviours is disrupted – causing a mismatch between the behavioural responses of parents and offspring. However, few empirical studies have tested these ideas, and the fitness implications and underlying genetics of parent–offspring conflict and co-adaptation are virtually unknown. We propose to integrate approaches from behavioural ecology and quantitative genetics in an ecological setting to remedy this situation: we will investigate the genetics and fitness implications of parent–offspring conflict and co-adaptation in wild blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus), which are an ideal model for this purpose. The research outcomes will improve our understanding of how evolutionary conflict and co-adaptation shape social interactions within families.'