Joint effects of brood size and resource availability on sibling competition
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The results have important implications by showing that there were main effects of both brood size and resource availability, and that their effects were not always independent of each other, and treating brood sizeand resource availability as independent factors is preferential to using offspring density.About:
This article is published in Animal Behaviour.The article was published on 2017-07-01 and is currently open access. It has received 5 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Brood & Burying beetle.read more
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No evidence of sibling cooperation in the absence of parental care in Nicrophorus vespilloides.
TL;DR: The results provide no evidence for sibling cooperation in the absence of care in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides, but using larval density at dispersal as a predictor of mean larval mass at disperseal, there was a significant correlation between larvaldensity and mean larv mass.
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Offspring are predisposed to beg more towards females in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides
TL;DR: This study reveals that offspring are predisposed to preferentially beg towards females independently of prior experiences with parents and highlights the importance of considering responses of begging offspring to parental attributes, such as the parent's sex, for the understanding of family conflicts.
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Causes and consequences of asynchronous hatching in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides
TL;DR: This chapter discusses the study system Nicrophorus vespilloides and its role in asynchronous hatching, and some of the mechanisms behind sexual conflict over parental care and the role of language in this conflict.
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Females adjust maternal hormone concentration in eggs according to male condition in a burying beetle.
Matthieu Paquet,Matthieu Paquet,Charline Parenteau,Lucy E. Ford,Tom Ratz,Jon Richardson,Frédéric Angelier,Per T. Smiseth +7 more
TL;DR: It is found that females reduced their deposition of JH when mated with heavier males, consistent with negative differential allocation of maternal hormones in response to variation in the body mass of the male parent.
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No evidence for increased fitness of offspring from multigenerational effects of parental size or natal carcass size in the burying beetle Nicrophorus marginatus.
TL;DR: In this article, the effect of potential multigenerational effects of parental body size and natal carcass size on lifetime fitness in the burying beetle, Nicrophorus marginatus (Coleoptera; Silphidae).
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The Evolution of Sibling Rivalry
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The ecology and behavior of burying beetles
TL;DR: Burying beetles conceal small vertebrate carcasses underground and prepare them for consumption by their young, and both males and females provide extensive parental care, and the major benefit of male assistance is to help defend the brood and carcass from competitors.
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Begging the question: are offspring solicitation behaviours signals of need?
TL;DR: Empirical support is assessed for the recent theory that begging advertises offspring need, that parents provision young in relation to begging intensity, and that the apparently costly nature of begging ensures the reliability of the signal.
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