Interspecific interactions explain variation in the duration of paternal care in the burying beetle

Animal Behaviour
Ornela De GasperinRebecca M Kilner

Abstract

Why is there so much variation within species in the extent to which males contribute to offspring care? Answers to this question commonly focus on intraspecific sources of variation in the relative costs and benefits of supplying paternal investment. With experiments in the laboratory on the burying beetle, Nicrophorus vespilloides, and its phoretic mite Poecilochirus carabi, we investigated whether interactions with a second species might also account for intraspecific variation in the extent of paternal care, and whether this variation is due to adaptation or constraint. In our first experiment we bred beetles in the presence or absence of phoretic mites, using a breeding box that mimicked natural conditions by allowing parents to leave the breeding attempt at a time of their choosing. We found that males abandoned their brood sooner when breeding alongside mites than when breeding in their absence. Female patterns of care were unchanged by the mites. Nevertheless, in this experiment, no correlates of beetle fitness were affected by the presence of the mites during reproduction (neither paternal life span after reproduction nor brood size or average larval mass). In a second experiment, we again bred beetles with or without ...Continue Reading

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Oct 14, 2016·Scientific Reports·Ornela De GasperinRebecca M Kilner
Jan 5, 2018·Ecology and Evolution·Volker NehringNadine Steinmetz
Mar 25, 2018·Journal of Evolutionary Biology·Eva M KeppnerSandra Steiger
Jan 27, 2019·Ecology and Evolution·Ornela De GasperinRebecca M Kilner
Oct 25, 2017·Scientific Reports·Ana DuarteRebecca M Kilner
Sep 30, 2018·Nature Communications·Benjamin J M JarrettRebecca M Kilner
Apr 23, 2019·Evolution Letters·Syuan-Jyun SunRebecca M Kilner
Jun 2, 2020·Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences·Emilie Snell-Rood, Claire Snell-Rood
Jul 7, 2017·The Journal of Animal Ecology·Ana DuarteRebecca M Kilner
Jan 27, 2019·Ecology and Evolution·Yin Wang, Daniel E Rozen

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