Transcriptomes of parents identify parenting strategies and sexual conflict in a subsocial beetle

Parenting in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides is complex and, unusually, the sex and number of parents that can be present is flexible. Such flexibility is expected to involve specialized behaviour by the two sexes under biparental conditions. Here, we show that offspring fare equally wel...

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Main Authors: Parker, Darren J., Cunningham, Christopher B., Walling, Craig A., Stamper, Clare E., Head, Megan L., Roy-Zokan, Eileen M., McKinney, Elizabeth C., Ritchie, Michael G., Moore, Allen J.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4598741/