Female burying beetles benefit from male desertion: Sexual conflict and counter-adaptation over parental investment

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Boncoraglio, Giuseppe ^a   Kilner, Rebecca M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTHROPOD LARVA; ARTICLE; BEETLE; BREEDING; BURYING BEETLE; COEVOLUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FEEDING; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; HATCHING; INSECT; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LIFESPAN; MALE; MALE DESERTION; MATING; NICROPHORUS VESPILLOIDES; NONHUMAN; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEXUAL CONFLICT; SIMULATION; SINGLE PARENT; ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMAL; CONFLICT; ENVIRONMENT; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; NESTING; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

COLEOPTERA; NICROPHORUS VESPILLOIDES;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMALS; BEETLES; BREEDING; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; NESTING BEHAVIOR; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 84857067782     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031713     Document Type: Article

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