Timing of oviposition enables dominant female burying beetles to destroy brood-parasitic young

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1227-1233

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

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brood parasitism; Burying beetle; Infanticide; Larvicide; Nicrophorus; Reproductive skew

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; BEETLE; BROOD PARASITISM; CLUTCH SIZE; DOMINANCE; HATCHING; LARVA; OVIPOSITION; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

COLEOPTERA; NICROPHORUS; NICROPHORUS VESPILLOIDES;

EID: 82355192252     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.09.001     Document Type: Article

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