A Parental Volatile Pheromone Triggers Offspring Begging in a Burying Beetle
Summary: Parental care is a notable aspect of reproductive effort in many animals. The interaction between offspring begging and the parental feeding response is an important communication mechanism that regulates offspring food supply, and reducing the cost of superfluous begging is beneficial to b...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2019-09-01
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Series: | iScience |
Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S258900421930224X |