Carcass maintenance and biparental brood care in burying beetles: Are males redundant?

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 195-200

  Müller, Josef K ^a   Eggert, Anne Katrin ^a   Sakaluk, Scott K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Burying beetles; Nicrophorus vespilloides; Parental care; Reproductive success; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

BURYING BEETLE; CARCASS; OFFSPRING SURVIVAL; PARENTAL CARE;

COLEOPTERA; NICROPHORUS; SILPHIDAE;

EID: 0345628009     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2311.1998.00119.x     Document Type: Article

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