Adaptive switch from infanticide to parental care: How do beetles time their behaviour?

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1998-2004

  Oldekop, J A ^a   Smiseth, P T ^a   Piggins, H D ^a   Moore, A J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biological timing; Burying beetle; Circadian clock; Infanticide; Nicrophorus vespilloides; Parental care; Temporal kin recognition; Timekeeping

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BEETLE; HOMOLOGY; INFANTICIDE; KIN RECOGNITION; OVIPOSITION; PARENTAL CARE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEETLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; EGG LAYING; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; OVIPOSITION; PHOTOPERIOD; TIME FACTORS;

COLEOPTERA; NICROPHORUS VESPILLOIDES;

EID: 34547914825     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2007.01364.x     Document Type: Article

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