Climate-mediated cooperation promotes niche expansion in burying beetles
The ability to form cooperative societies may explain why humans and social insects have come to dominate the earth. Here we examine the ecological consequences of cooperation by quantifying the fitness of cooperative (large groups) and non-cooperative (small groups) phenotypes in burying beetles (N...
Main Authors: | Syuan-Jyun Sun, Dustin R Rubenstein, Bo-Fei Chen, Shih-Fan Chan, Jian-Nan Liu, Mark Liu, Wenbe Hwang, Ping-Shih Yang, Sheng-Feng Shen |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
2014-05-01
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Series: | eLife |
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Online Access: | https://elifesciences.org/articles/02440 |
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