Parental Care System and Brood Size Drive Sex Difference in Reproductive Allocation: An Experimental Study on Burying Beetles

Life-history theory predicts that increased resource allocation in current reproduction comes at the cost of survival and future reproductive fitness. In taxa with biparental care, each parent can adjust investment on current reproduction according to changes in their partner’s effort, but these adj...

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Main Authors: Wenxia Wang, Long Ma, Maaike A. Versteegh, Hua Wu, Jan Komdeur
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2021.739396/full