ArticleBiology letters2016
The role of neuropeptide F in a transition to parental care.
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- The neurobiology of parenting and infant-evoked aggression.Physiological reviews · 2025Review
- Revisiting the ecology and evolution of burying beetle behavior (Staphylinidae: Silphinae).Ecology and evolution · 2024Review
- Survey of neurotransmitter receptor gene expression into and out of parental care in the burying beetleEcology and evolution · 2021Article
- Novel brain gene-expression patterns are associated with a novel predaceous behaviour in tadpoles.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Cloning and Expression of the Neuropeptide F and Neuropeptide F Receptor Genes and Their Regulation of Food Intake in the Chinese White Pine BeetleFrontiers in physiology · 2021Article
- Social creatures: Model animal systems for studying the neuroendocrine mechanisms of social behaviour.Journal of neuroendocrinology · 2019Review
- From phenotype to genotype: the precursor hypothesis predicts genetic influences that facilitate transitions in social behavior.Current opinion in insect science · 2019Review
- Changes of gene expression but not cytosine methylation are associated with male parental care reflecting behavioural state, social context and individual flexibility.The Journal of experimental biology · 2019Article
- Duplication and Sub/Neofunctionalization ofG3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2017Article
- Relating quantitative variation within a behavior to variation in transcription.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2017Article
- Ethological principles predict the neuropeptides co-opted to influence parenting.Nature communications · 2017Article
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Abstract
The genetics of complex social behaviour can be dissected by examining the genetic influences of component pathways, which can be predicted based on expected evolutionary precursors. Here, we examine how gene expression in a pathway that influences the motivation to eat is altered during parental care that involves direct feeding of larvae. We examine the expression of neuropeptide F, and its receptor, in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides, which feeds pre-digested carrion to its begging larvae. We found that the npf receptor was greatly reduced during active care. Our research provides evidence that feeding behaviour was a likely target during the evolution of parental care in N. vespilloides Moreover, dissecting complex behaviours into ethologically distinct sub-behaviours is a productive way to begin to target the genetic mechanisms involved in the evolution of complex behaviours.
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