ArticleScientific reports2016
Fitness costs associated with building and maintaining the burying beetle's carrion nest.
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- Experimental evolution of a more restrained clutch size when filial cannibalism is prevented in burying beetlesEcology 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
- Temperature stress induces mites to help their carrion beetle hosts by eliminating rival blowflies.eLife · 2020Article
- Conflict within species determines the value of a mutualism between species.Evolution letters · 2019Article
- A sustained change in the supply of parental care causes adaptive evolution of offspring morphology.Nature communications · 2018Article
- Adaptive evolution of synchronous egg-hatching in compensation for the loss of parental care.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2018Article
- Strategies for managing rival bacterial communities: Lessons from burying beetles.The Journal of animal ecology · 2018Article
- Can recent evolutionary history promote resilience to environmental change?Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
- Maternal care shapes an aposematic display and provides lifelong protection against predators.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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It is well-known that features of animal nest architecture can be explained by fitness benefits gained by the offspring housed within. Here we focus on the little-tested suggestion that the fitness costs associated with building and maintaining a nest should additionally account for aspects of its architecture. Burying beetles prepare an edible nest for their young from a small vertebrate carcass, by ripping off any fur or feathers and rolling the flesh into a rounded ball. We found evidence that only larger beetles are able to construct rounder carcass nests, and that rounder carcass nests are associated with lower maintenance costs. Offspring success, however, was not explained by nest roundness. Our experiment thus provides rare support for the suggestion that construction and maintenance costs are key to understanding animal architecture.
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