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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Main Authors: Mamoru Takata, Yuki Mitaka, Sandra Steiger, Naoki Mori
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-09-01
Series:iScience
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S258900421930224X