ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2015
Parental care buffers against inbreeding depression in burying beetles.
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- Can age-related changes in parental care modulate inbreeding depression? A test using the burying beetle,Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Sex-specific influence of communal breeding experience on parenting performance and fitness in a burying beetle.Royal Society open science · 2022Article
- Evolutionary change in the construction of the nursery environment when parents are prevented from caring for their young directly.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
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- Cost, risk, and avoidance of inbreeding in a cooperatively breeding bird.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- Testing predictions of inclusive fitness theory in inbreeding relatives with biparental care.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Parental care and sibling competition independently increase phenotypic variation among burying beetle siblings.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2018Article
- Inbred burying beetles suffer fitness costs from making poor decisions.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2018Article
- Increased prenatal maternal investment reduces inbreeding depression in offspring.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2017Article
- Beyond Cuticular Hydrocarbons: Chemically Mediated Mate Recognition in the Subsocial Burying Beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides.Journal of chemical ecology · 2017Article
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- Inbreeding parents should invest more resources in fewer offspring.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2016Article
- Maternal effects alter the severity of inbreeding depression in the offspring.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2016Article
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Abstract
When relatives mate, their inbred offspring often suffer a reduction in fitness-related traits known as "inbreeding depression." There is mounting evidence that inbreeding depression can be exacerbated by environmental stresses such as starvation, predation, parasitism, and competition. Parental care may play an important role as a buffer against inbreeding depression in the offspring by alleviating these environmental stresses. Here, we examine the effect of parental care on the fitness costs of inbreeding in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides, an insect with facultative parental care. We used a 2 × 2 factorial design with the following factors: (i) the presence or absence of a caring female parent during larval development and (ii) inbred or outbred offspring. We examined the joint influence of maternal care and inbreeding status on fitness-related offspring traits to test the hypothesis that maternal care improves the performance of inbred offspring more than that of outbred offspring. Indeed, the female's presence led to a higher increase in larval survival in inbred than in outbred broods. Receiving care at the larval stage also increased the lifespan of inbred but not outbred adults, suggesting that the beneficial buffering effects of maternal care can persist long after the offspring have become independent. Our results show that parental care has the potential to moderate the severity of inbreeding depression, which in turn may favor inbreeding tolerance and influence the evolution of mating systems and other inbreeding-avoidance mechanisms.
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