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Parental care and sibling competition independently increase phenotypic variation among burying beetle siblings

Several recent hypotheses suggest that parental care can influence the extent of phenotypic variation within populations; however, there have been few tests of these ideas. We exploited the facultative nature of posthatching parental care in the burying beetle, Nicrophorus vespilloides, to test whet...

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Autores principales: Schrader, Matthew, Jarrett, Benjamin J. M., Kilner, Rebecca M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6282698/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30246425
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/evo.13607