Super-Protective Child-Rearing by Japanese Bess Beetles, Cylindrocaulus patalis: Adults Provide Their Larvae with Chewed and Predigested Wood

Beetles of the family Passalidae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) are termed subsocial. The insects inhabit rotten wood as family groups consisting of the parents and their offspring. The Japanese species Cylindrocaulus patalis has the lowest fecundity among passalids because siblicide occurs among the f...

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Autores principales: Mishima, Tatsuya, Wada, Noriko, Iwata, Ryûtarô, Anzai, Hirosi, Hosoya, Tadatsugu, Araya, Kunio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4931430/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27128944
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects7020018

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4931430/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27128944
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects7020018

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