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Transcriptomes of parents identify parenting strategies and sexual conflict in a subsocial beetle

Parenting in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides is complex and, unusually, the sex and number of parents that can be present is flexible. Such flexibility is expected to involve specialized behaviour by the two sexes under biparental conditions. Here, we show that offspring fare equally wel...

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Autores principales: Parker, Darren J., Cunningham, Christopher B., Walling, Craig A., Stamper, Clare E., Head, Megan L., Roy-Zokan, Eileen M., McKinney, Elizabeth C., Ritchie, Michael G., Moore, Allen J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4598741/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26416581
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9449