Dominance network structure across reproductive contexts in the cooperatively breeding cichlid fish Neolamprologus pulcher

Abstract While a large number of studies have described animal social networks, we have a poor understanding of how these networks vary with ecological and social conditions. For example, reproductive periods are an important life-history stage that may involve changes in dominance relationships among individuals, yet no study to date has compared social networks of dominance interactions (i.e. dominance networks) across …