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We next restricted the within-group grooming network analysis to adult females only, in order to test for alternative explanations for the grooming-microbiome composition effect.
The striking similarities between the two levels of analysis suggest that common underlying mechanisms mediated by direct social contact rather than diet or general physical proximity account for both between-group differences and grooming network effects within groups.
One of the five victims of the grooming network in Rochdale had been placed in a residential care home in the town by another local authority.
For example, agonistic interactions between two individuals will influence how they interact in their proximity network (they might start spending less time together) or their grooming network (they might increase grooming after fights to reconcile).
We investigated whether increased fragmentation within a matrilineal pedigree (lower average coefficient of relatedness among matriline members; absence of the matriarch) is associated with a greater number of communities per matrilineal grooming network, which may be an indication of instability within the matriline.
Bacterial taxonomic groups significantly enriched (10% FDR) for socially structured species (A ) between social groups and (B ) within the grooming network for Viola's group (Supplementary file 8 ).
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To test whether physical contact predicted gut microbiome composition, we constructed grooming networks for each social group, using all grooming interactions observed in the year prior to and during microbiome sampling.
To test whether grooming-based social networks predicted gut microbiome similarity, we constructed grooming networks based on ad lib observations of grooming interactions collected in the year prior to and including the period of microbiome sampling (8 August 2011 to 8 August 2012 16488 total interactions, with 667 in Mica's group and 981 in Viola's group).
We used partial Mantel tests to assess whether grooming network-microbiome dissimilarity matrix correlations were driven by kinship (represented using pedigree-based pairwise relatedness estimates).
In the same population, females with more focused grooming networks show less pronounced responses to various stressors, including the immigration of potentially infanticidal males (Crockford et al. 2008; Wittig et al. 2008).
Grooming networks predicted variation in within-group enzyme gene ortholog abundance for Mica's group (partial Mantel test controlling for kinship: r = −0.22, p = 0.014), but not Viola's group (partial Mantel test controlling for kinship: r = −0.051, p = 0.166).
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