ArticleEcology and evolution2015
Interspecific interactions change the outcome of sexual conflict over prehatching parental investment in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides.
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- Temperature Variation Regulates the Trade-Off Between Pre- and Post-Hatching Investment in a Burying Beetle.Insects · 2025Article
- Brood size, food availability, and body size affects male care decisions and offspring performance.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
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- The early-life environment and individual plasticity in life-history traits.Ecology and evolution · 2019Article
- No effect of intraspecific relatedness on public goods cooperation in a complex community.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2018Article
- No evidence of a cleaning mutualism between burying beetles and their phoretic mites.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Fitness costs associated with building and maintaining the burying beetle's carrion nest.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- Do female Nicrophorus vespilloides reduce direct costs by choosing males that mate less frequently?Biology letters · 2016Article
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Abstract
Sexual conflict arises when the optimal reproductive strategy differs for males and females. It is associated with every reproductive stage, yet few studies have considered how the outcome may be changed by interactions with other species. Here, we show that phoretic mites Poecilochirus carabi change the outcome of sexual conflict over the supply of prehatching parental investment in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides. Burying beetles require a small dead vertebrate for reproduction, which they prepare by shaving it, rolling up the flesh, and burying it. When pairs were given a medium-sized mouse to prepare (13-16 g), mites changed how the costs of reproduction were divided between the sexes, with males then sustaining greater costs than females. We found no equivalent difference when pairs prepared larger or smaller carcasses. Thus, our experiment shows that the outcome of sexual conflict over prehatching parental investment is changed by interactions with other species during reproduction.
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