ReviewCold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology2014
Sexual conflict between parents: offspring desertion and asymmetrical parental care.
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- Flexible parental care in a songbird correlates with sex-specific responses to seasonal phenology, mating opportunity and reproductive success.The Journal of animal ecology · 2026Article
- The evolution of negotiation strategies diversifies parental cooperation.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Snowmelt and laying date impact the parental care strategy of a high-Arctic shorebird.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- May brood desertion be ruled by partner parenting capability in a polygamous songbird? An experimental study.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- To Flee or Not to Flee: How Age, Reproductive Phase, and Mate Presence Affect White Stork Flight Decisions.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Investigating the interaction between inter-locus and intra-locus sexual conflict using hemiclonal analysis in Drosophila melanogaster.BMC ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Enduring rules of care within pairs - how blue tit parents resume provisioning behaviour after experimental disturbance.Scientific reports · 2019Article
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- Demographic Histories and Genome-Wide Patterns of Divergence in Incipient Species of Shorebirds.Frontiers in genetics · 2019Article
- Decreasing parental task specialization promotes conditional cooperation.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- The sexual cascade and the rise of pre-ejaculatory (Darwinian) sexual selection, sex roles, and sexual conflict.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2014Review
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Abstract
Parental care is an immensely variable social behavior, and sexual conflict offers a powerful paradigm to understand this diversity. Conflict over care (usually considered as a type of postzygotic sexual conflict) is common, because the evolutionary interests of male and female parents are rarely identical. I investigate how sexual conflict over care may facilitate the emergence and maintenance of diverse parenting strategies and argue that researchers should combine two fundamental concepts in social behavior to understand care patterns: cooperation and conflict. Behavioral evidence of conflict over care is well established, studies have estimated specific fitness implications of conflict for males or females, and experiments have investigated specific components of conflict. However, studies are long overdue to reveal the full implications of conflict for both males and females. Manipulating (or harming) the opposite sex seems less common in postzygotic conflicts than in prezygotic conflicts because by manipulating, coercing, or harming the opposite sex, the reproductive interest of the actor is also reduced. Parental care is a complex trait, although few studies have yet considered the implications of multidimensionality for parental conflict. Future research in parental conflict will benefit from understanding the behavioral interactions between male and female parents (e.g., negotiation, learning, and coercion), the genetic and neurogenomic bases of parental behavior, and the influence of social environment on parental strategies. Empirical studies are needed to put sexual conflict in a population context and reveal feedback between mate choice, pair bonds and parenting strategies, and their demographic consequences for the population such as mortalities and sex ratios. Taken together, sexual conflict offers a fascinating avenue for understanding the causes and consequences of parenting behavior, sex roles, and breeding system evolution.
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