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ArticleEcology and evolution2026

Parental Social Environment Has no Effect on Offspring Development in the Dung Beetle: A Test of Adult Sex Ratio Effects.

Lisheng Zhang, Sudeshna Chakraborty, Tamás Székely, Jan Komdeur

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Article in Ecology and evolution, 2026. 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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Lisheng ZhangYunnan Key Laboratory of Forest Ecosystem Stability and Global Change, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden Chinese Academy of Sciences Mengla Yunnan China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0004-6463-3787
Sudeshna ChakrabortyBehavioural and Physiological Ecology Group Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Science, University of Groningen Groningen the Netherlands.
Tamás SzékelyMilner Centre for Evolution University of Bath Bath UK.
Jan KomdeurBehavioural and Physiological Ecology Group Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Science, University of Groningen Groningen the Netherlands.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The adult sex ratio (ASR) is a key demographic parameter that shapes sexual selection and social interactions. While ASR variation drives profound behavioral plasticity within a generation, it remains unclear whether parental experience of skewed ASRs influences offspring development via transgenerational plasticity (TGP), and if so, which of the two core nongenetic pathways: pre-zygotic germline-mediated information transfer and post-zygotic parental investment, predominates. To disentangle these mechanistically distinct pathways, we conducted a controlled egg-transplantation experiment in the dung beetle

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adult sex ratiodung beetleoffspring developmentparental caresocial environmenttransgenerational plasticity

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