Chemical stimuli from parents trigger larval begging in burying beetles

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 526-531

  Smiseth, Per T ^a   Andrews, Clare ^a   Brown, Erica ^b   Prentice, Pamela M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Begging; Chemical stimuli; Kin discrimination; Nicrophorus vespilloides; Parent offspring communication; Stimulus response

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BEETLE; BEGGING BEHAVIOR; CHEMICAL CUE; COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; KIN RECOGNITION; KINSHIP; LARVA; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION;

AVES; COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; NICROPHORUS VESPILLOIDES;

EID: 77951115598     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arq019     Document Type: Article

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