ArticleNature communications2015
Transcriptomes of parents identify parenting strategies and sexual conflict in a subsocial beetle.
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- Sex-specific influence of communal breeding experience on parenting performance and fitness in a burying beetle.Royal Society open science · 2022Article
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- 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
- Survey of neurotransmitter receptor gene expression into and out of parental care in the burying beetleEcology and evolution · 2021Article
- Back to the basics? Transcriptomics offers integrative insights into the role of space, time and the environment for gene expression and behaviour.Biology letters · 2021Article
- Constrained flexibility of parental cooperation limits adaptive responses to harsh conditions.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2021Article
- The Parental Dilemma: How Evolution of Diverse Strategies for Infant Care Informs Social Behavior Circuits.Frontiers in neural circuits · 2021Article
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- Adaptation to monogamy influences parental care but not mating behavior in the burying beetle,Ecology and evolution · 2020Article
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Abstract
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 well regardless of the sex or number of parents present. Comparing transcriptomes, we find a largely overlapping set of differentially expressed genes in both uniparental and biparental females and in uniparental males including vitellogenin, associated with reproduction, and takeout, influencing sex-specific mating and feeding behaviour. Gene expression in biparental males is similar to that in non-caring states. Thus, being 'biparental' in N. vespilloides describes the family social organization rather than the number of directly parenting individuals. There was no specialization; instead, in biparental families, direct male parental care appears to be limited with female behaviour unchanged. This should lead to strong sexual conflict.
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