Transcriptomes of parents identify parenting strategies and sexual conflict in a subsocial beetle

Parker, Darren; Cunningham, Christopher B.; Walling, Craig A.; Stamper, Clare E.; Head, Megan L.; Roy-Zokan, Eileen M.; McKinney, Elizabeth C.; Ritchie, Michael G.; Moore, Allen J.

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Parker, D., 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, 6, Article 8449. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9449

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Nature Communications

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Parker, Darren |

Cunningham, Christopher B. |

Walling, Craig A. |

Stamper, Clare E. |

Head, Megan L. |

Roy-Zokan, Eileen M. |

McKinney, Elizabeth C. |

Ritchie, Michael G. |

Moore, Allen J.

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2015

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Ekologia ja evoluutiobiologia Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

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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 ... showmore

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