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Insect Conservation and Diversity, Volume 18, Issue 5, Page 869-879, September 2025.Animal personality plays a key role in translocation success in both wild‐to‐wild and captive‐to‐wild translocations, with important implications for the success of conservation projects. However, the majority of studies so far have explored the link between personality and translocation success in vertebrate translocations, and there has been less ...
Eleanor Drinkwater +4 more
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Female burying beetles benefit from male desertion: sexual conflict and counter-adaptation over parental investment. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Sexual conflict drives the coevolution of sexually antagonistic traits, such that an adaptation in one sex selects an opposing coevolutionary response from the other.
Giuseppe Boncoraglio, Rebecca M Kilner
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Coordination, Cooperation, and Conflict Between Caring Parents in Burying Beetles
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019 Much of our current understanding of coordination, cooperation, and conflict between male and female parents caring for their joint offspring derives from studies conducted on birds.
Per T. Smiseth
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Strategies, costs and counter‐strategies to sexual coercion
Biological Reviews, Volume 100, Issue 4, Page 1557-1577, August 2025.ABSTRACT Sexual conflict, the conflict between the evolutionary interests of females and males over mating, occasionally results in the evolution of traits favourable for one sex and adverse for the other. In this context, males can use sexual coercion to increase their mating success, at the expense of their female targets' mate choice.
Nikolaos Smit
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Population Ecology, Volume 67, Issue 3, Page 183-190, July 2025.This study reveals genetic variation in the exclusion of heterospecific larvae in Nicrophorus quadripunctatus. Populations coexisting with competitors exhibit higher exclusion rates, suggesting local adaptation in parental care strategies. Abstract The family is the smallest unit of society, where parents invest significant time and resources in their ...
Mamoru Takata, Yuki Matsuo
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eLife, 2020 Understanding how climate-mediated biotic interactions shape thermal niche width is critical in an era of global change. Yet, most previous work on thermal niches has ignored detailed mechanistic information about the relationship between temperature and
Hsiang-Yu Tsai +8 more
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Development and application of 14 microsatellite markers in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides reveals population genetic differentiation at local spatial scales [PDF]
PeerJ, 2017 Burying beetles (genus Nicrophorus) are relatively rare among insects in providing sophisticated parental care. Consequently, they have become model species in research analysing social evolution, the evolution of parental care and mating systems.
Sonia Pascoal, Rebecca M. Kilner
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A Parental Volatile Pheromone Triggers Offspring Begging in a Burying Beetle
iScience, 2019 Summary: Parental care is a notable aspect of reproductive effort in many animals. The interaction between offspring begging and the parental feeding response is an important communication mechanism that regulates offspring food supply, and reducing the ...
Mamoru Takata +3 more
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Climate-mediated cooperation promotes niche expansion in burying beetles
eLife, 2014 The ability to form cooperative societies may explain why humans and social insects have come to dominate the earth. Here we examine the ecological consequences of cooperation by quantifying the fitness of cooperative (large groups) and non-cooperative ...
Syuan-Jyun Sun +8 more
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Moisture and competition constrain ephemeral resource quality for burying beetle reproduction
Ecology, Volume 106, Issue 6, June 2025.Abstract Shifts in abiotic factors such as temperature and moisture can change the availability of resources, especially under climate change. Both abiotic and biotic drivers can have profound, rapid effects on species distribution, survival, and reproduction.
Tracie E. Hayes +2 more
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