ArticleNature communications2018
A sustained change in the supply of parental care causes adaptive evolution of offspring morphology.
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- The effect of experimental warming on reproductive performance and parental care in the burying beetleRoyal Society open science · 2024Article
- Gene body methylation evolves during the sustained loss of parental care in the burying beetle.Nature communications · 2024Article
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- Selection on the joint actions of pairs leads to divergent adaptation and coadaptation of care-giving parents during pre-hatching care.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Parental care shapes the evolution of molecular genetic variation.Evolution letters · 2023Article
- The evolutionary demise of a social interaction: experimentally induced loss of traits involved in the supply and demand of care.Evolution letters · 2023Article
- Parental care results in a greater mutation load, for which it is also a phenotypic antidote.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Stories of women's marriage and fertility experiences: Qualitative research on urban and rural cases in Bali, Indonesia.Gates open research · 2023Article
- Insights into Parental Care from Studies on Non-mammalian Vertebrates.Affective science · 2022Article
- The reproductive ecology drivers of egg attendance in amphibians.Ecology letters · 2022Article
- Life history and the evolutionary loss of parental care.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Experimental evolution of a more restrained clutch size when filial cannibalism is prevented in burying beetlesEcology and evolution · 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
- Constrained flexibility of parental cooperation limits adaptive responses to harsh conditions.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2021Article
- Adaptation to monogamy influences parental care but not mating behavior in the burying beetle,Ecology and evolution · 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
- The evolution of parental care diversity in amphibians.Nature communications · 2019Article
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Abstract
Although cooperative social interactions within species are considered an important driver of evolutionary change, few studies have experimentally demonstrated that they cause adaptive evolution. Here we address this problem by studying the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides. In this species, parents and larvae work together to obtain nourishment for larvae from the carrion breeding resource: parents feed larvae and larvae also self-feed. We established experimentally evolving populations in which we varied the assistance that parents provided for their offspring and investigated how offspring evolved in response. We show that in populations where parents predictably supplied more care, larval mandibles evolved to be smaller in relation to larval mass, and larvae were correspondingly less self-sufficient. Previous work has shown that antagonistic social interactions can generate escalating evolutionary arms races. Our study shows that cooperative interactions can yield the opposite evolutionary outcome: when one party invests more, the other evolves to invest less.
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