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Transcriptomes of parents identify parenting strategies and sexual conflict in a subsocial beetle
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dc.contributor.author | Parker, Darren James | |
dc.contributor.author | Cunningham, Christopher B. | |
dc.contributor.author | Walling, Craig A. | |
dc.contributor.author | Stamper, Clare E. | |
dc.contributor.author | Head, Megan L. | |
dc.contributor.author | Roy-Zokan, Eileen M. | |
dc.contributor.author | McKinney, Elizabeth C. | |
dc.contributor.author | Ritchie, Michael Gordon | |
dc.contributor.author | Moore, Allen J. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-11-05T14:10:02Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-11-05T14:10:02Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015-09-29 | |
dc.identifier | 228670655 | |
dc.identifier | 8359447d-9ef9-45b2-9f14-0afa67390c21 | |
dc.identifier | 000363143100001 | |
dc.identifier | 84942805919 | |
dc.identifier | 000363143100001 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Parker , D J , Cunningham , C B , Walling , C A , Stamper , C E , Head , M L , Roy-Zokan , E M , McKinney , E C , Ritchie , M G & Moore , A J 2015 , ' Transcriptomes of parents identify parenting strategies and sexual conflict in a subsocial beetle ' , Nature Communications , vol. 6 , 8449 . https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9449 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 2041-1723 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0001-7913-8675/work/46761103 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/7743 | |
dc.description | This work was funded by UK NERC grants to M.G.R. and A.J.M. an NERC studentship to D.J.P. the University of Georgia and a US NSF grant to A.J.M. and M.G.R. | en |
dc.description.abstract | Parenting in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides is complex and, unusually, the sex and number of parents that can be present is flexible. Such flexibility is expected to involve specialized behaviour by the two sexes under biparental conditions. Here, we show that offspring fare equally well regardless of the sex or number of parents present. Comparing transcriptomes, we find a largely overlapping set of differentially expressed genes in both uniparental and biparental females and in uniparental males including vitellogenin, associated with reproduction, and takeout, influencing sex-specific mating and feeding behaviour. Gene expression in biparental males is similar to that in non-caring states. Thus, being ‘biparental’ in N. vespilloides describes the family social organization rather than the number of directly parenting individuals. There was no specialization; instead, in biparental families, direct male parental care appears to be limited with female behaviour unchanged. This should lead to strong sexual conflict. | |
dc.format.extent | 11 | |
dc.format.extent | 722975 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Nature Communications | en |
dc.subject | Drosophila takeout gene | en |
dc.subject | Juvenile-hormone | en |
dc.subject | Burying beetles | en |
dc.subject | Nicrophorus-vespilloides | en |
dc.subject | Evolutionary transitions | en |
dc.subject | Social-Behavior | en |
dc.subject | Honey-bee | en |
dc.subject | Feeding-behavior | en |
dc.subject | Penduline tits | en |
dc.subject | Life-history | en |
dc.subject | QH301 Biology | en |
dc.subject | QL Zoology | en |
dc.subject | BDC | en |
dc.subject | R2C | en |
dc.subject.lcc | QH301 | en |
dc.subject.lcc | QL | en |
dc.title | Transcriptomes of parents identify parenting strategies and sexual conflict in a subsocial beetle | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.contributor.sponsor | NERC | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of Biology | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Centre for Biological Diversity | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciences | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1038/ncomms9449 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | NE/J020818/1 | en |
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