Parental care and sibling competition independently increase phenotypic variation among burying beetle siblings

Several recent hypotheses suggest that parental care can influence the extent of phenotypic variation within populations; however, there have been few tests of these ideas. We exploited the facultative nature of posthatching parental care in the burying beetle, Nicrophorus vespilloides, to test whet...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Evolution
Main Authors: Schrader, Matthew, Jarrett, Benjamin J. M., Kilner, Rebecca M.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018
Subjects:
Brief Communication
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6282698/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30246425
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1111/evo.13607
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!

Similar Items