▪ Abstract Burying beetles conceal small vertebrate carcasses underground and prepare
them for consumption by their young. This review places their complex social behavior in an …

One of the earliest recognized forms of sexual conflict was infanticide by males, which
imposes serious costs on female reproductive success. Here I review two bodies of …

Burying beetles (genusNicrophorus) provide elaborate parental care to their offspring.
Parental beetles defend a small vertebrate carcass, which constitutes the sole food source …

The tremendous diversity of social behaviour among the invertebrates is an asset and a
challenge. There is richness in both the number of phylogenetic lineages that have evolved …

Game theory has been used to provide theoretical solutions for the evolutionary stability of
biparental care given sexual conflict between parents. Existing models predict that, should …

To investigate the range of resource size that burying beetles (Nicrophorus) exploit, small
(21-33 g), medium (50-90 g) and large (120-210 g) mouse/rat carcasses were placed in the …

Investigating fundamental processes in biology requires the ability to ground broad
questions in species‐specific natural history. This is particularly true in the study of behavior …

In families in which both parents care for multiple offspring, the amount of care a parent
provides can be simultaneously influenced by multiple social interactions (ie, parent-parent …

How much should an individual invest in reproduction as it grows older? Answering this
question involves determining whether individuals measure their age as the time left for …

Among the factors that may contribute to the evolution of social monogamy are selection for
extended mate guarding of females and selection for territorial 'cooperation'. Many socially …