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ReviewInsectes sociaux2025

Burying beetles as a model organism to study sex differences in parental care.

T Ratz

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Review in Insectes sociaux, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

T RatzDepartment of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-4215-277X

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In species where both sexes care for offspring, one parent-generally the female-typically provides more care than the other. While current theory offers broad predictions on the evolution of sex differences in parental care, it remains unclear whether ecological factors, such as short-term environmental variation and the intrinsic state of parents, also influence the size of existing asymmetries between parents. Here, I highlight how recent work on burying beetles (

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Biparental careCooperationNicrophorusSexual conflictSexual dimorphism

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PMID40519858
PMCPMC12158860

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