Do honest signalling models of offspring solicitation apply to insects?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1429, 1999, Pages 1691-1696

  Rauter, Claudia M ^a   Moore, Allen J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Begging; Burying beetle; Nicrophorus orbicollis; Offspring solicitation; Parent offspring conflict; Parental care

Indexed keywords

FOOD PROVISIONING; HONEST SIGNALING; INSECT; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PARENTAL CARE;

ARTICLE; BEETLE; BEHAVIOR; INSECT; LARVA; LITTER SIZE; NONHUMAN; PARENT; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AVES; COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MAMMALIA; NICROPHORUS ORBICOLLIS; SILPHIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033595327     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0833     Document Type: Article

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