Interaction between parental care and sibling competition: Parents enhance offspring growth and exacerbate sibling competition

Evolution

Volumn 61, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2331-2339

  Smiseth, Per T ^a   Lennox, Laura ^a   Moore, Allen J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Begging; Brood size; Burying beetles; Facultative parental care; Nicrophorus vespilloides; Parental food provisioning; Sibling rivalry

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; BEGGING BEHAVIOR; BROOD SIZE; PARENTAL CARE; SIBLING;

AGING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEETLE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SIBLING;

AGING; ANIMALS; BEETLES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; LARVA; MALE; SIBLINGS;

COLEOPTERA; NICROPHORUS VESPILLOIDES;

EID: 34848889241     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00192.x     Document Type: Article

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