Communal breeding in burying beetles

American Scientist

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 376-382

  Scott, Michelle Pellissier ^a,b,c,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Bunting Inst of Radcliffe College

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BURYING BEETLE; COMMUNAL BREEDING; REPRODUCTION;

COLEOPTERA; NICROPHORUS; SILPHIDAE;

EID: 0030428558     PISSN: 00030996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (5)

1. Eggert, A. K., and J. K. Müller. 1992. Joint breeding in female burying beetles. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 31:237-242.
2. Scott, M. P. 1994. Competition with flies promotes communal breeding in the burying beetle, Nicrophorus tomentosus. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 34:367-373.
3. Scott, M. P., and J. F. A. Traniello. 1990. Behavioural and ecological correlates of male and female parental care and reproductive success in burying beetles (Nicrophorus spp.) Animal Behaviour 39:274-283.
4. Scott, M. P., and S. M. Williams. 1993. Comparative reproductive success of communally-breeding burying beetles as assessed by PCR with randomly amplified polymorphic DNA. Proceedings of the National Academy of: Science 90:2242-2245.
5. Trumbo, S. T. 1992. Monogamy to communal breeding: exploitation of a broad resource base by burying beetles (Nicrophorus): Ecological Entomology 17:289-298.