Starving the competition: A proximate cause of reproductive skew in burying beetles (Nicrophorus vespilloides)

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 275, Issue 1650, 2008, Pages 2521-2528

  Eggert, Anne Katrin ^a,b   Otte, Tobias ^b   Müller, Josef K ^b  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Burying beetle; Fecundity; Nicrophorus; Nutrition; Ovicide; Reproductive skew

Indexed keywords

LARVICIDAL AGENT;

AGGRESSION; BEETLE; BODY SIZE; BROOD PARASITISM; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DOMINANCE; EGG PRODUCTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD SUPPLEMENTATION; LARVA; PARENTAL CARE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; STARVATION;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEETLE; BROOD PARASITISM; CARCASS; COMPETITION; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DOMINANCE BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FOOD INTAKE; LARVA; NICROPHORUS VESPILLOIDES; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALIA; COLEOPTERA; NICROPHORUS; NICROPHORUS VESPILLOIDES;

EID: 52749096684     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.0661     Document Type: Article

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