An inhibitor of Kin4, called Lte1, localizes to the bud but is absent from the parent cell; it inhibits any residual Kin4 that leaks into the bud.

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Optimum territory size when benefit is greater than cost

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Foraging Behavior - The Search for Food

Optimizing its foraging behavior

1. When the difference between the energetic benefits of food consumption  and the energetic costs of food gathering is maximized.

2. Animals with optimal foraging strategies will have more available energy with which to survive and reproduce.

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Group Living Has Advantages and Disadvantages

When animals live together in groups such as flocks or herds

Disadvantage- Group promote competition for food and increased transmission of parasites and other diseases.

Advantage - Benefits relate to group defense against predators through increased vigilance and through protection in numbers.

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Many eyes hypothesis‐ By living in groups, individuals may decrease the amount of time each spends scanning for predators and increase the time they have to feed. 

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Sexual selection is selection that promotes traits that will increase an organism’s mating success.