Current brood size and residual reproductive value predict offspring desertion in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides

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Personal immunity versus social immunity (2010, background): “In the burying beetle, Nicrophorus vespilloides, for example, females value each breeding attempt more highly than males but gain less fitness than males from a long life (Ward et al. 2009).”
Age-specific reproductive investment in female burying beetles: independent effects of state and risk of death (2011, methodology): “We know from our previous 164 work that by the time the larvae come to disperse, roughly eight days after hatching, their 165 weight is an accurate indication of their parents' reproductive investment (Ward et al., 2009).”