Post-hatching parental care masks the effects of egg size on offspring fitness: A removal experiment on burying beetles

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1815-1822

  Monteith, K M ^a   Andrews, C ^a   Smiseth, Per T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Egg size; Nicrophorus vespilloides; Parental care; Parental food provisioning; Parental removal

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; BODY MASS; BROOD SIZE; EGG SIZE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FITNESS; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PARENTAL CARE; TRADE-OFF;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEETLE; BODY WEIGHT; CLUTCH SIZE; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; LARVA; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; OOCYTE; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; CLUTCH SIZE; FEMALE; GENETIC FITNESS; LARVA; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; ORGAN SIZE; OVUM; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

COLEOPTERA; NICROPHORUS VESPILLOIDES;

EID: 84865157290     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2012.02567.x     Document Type: Article

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