ArticleEvolutionary ecology
Social immunity of the family: parental contributions to a public good modulated by brood size.
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- Direct and indirect benefits of cooperation in collective defense against predation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- 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
- Offspring reverse transcriptome responses to maternal deprivation when reared with pathogens in an insect with facultative family life.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
- An evolutionary switch from sibling rivalry to sibling cooperation, caused by a sustained loss of parental care.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- Defences against brood parasites from a social immunity perspective.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2019Review
- Fitness costs of phoretic nematodes in the burying beetle,Ecology and evolution · 2019Article
- Social immunity in honeybees-Density dependence, diet, and body mass trade-offs.Ecology and evolution · 2018Article
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Abstract
Social immunity refers to any immune defence that benefits others, besides the individual that mounts the response. Since contributions to social immunity are known to be personally costly, they are contributions to a public good. However, individuals vary in their contributions to this public good and it is unclear why. Here we investigate whether they are responding to contributions made by others with experiments on burying beetle (
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