How do caring parents respond to mate loss? Differential response by males and females

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Current brood size and residual reproductive value predict offspring desertion in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides (2009, background): “Single mothers and fathers are equally effective at rearing larvae to independence in the laboratory (e.g., Smiseth et al. 2005), and each can take on the full range of parental duties in the absence of the other (Eggert and Müller 1997; Scott 1998).”
To Compensate or Not? Caring Parents Respond Differentially to Mate Removal and Mate Handicapping in the Burying Beetle, Nicrophorus quadripunctatus (2009, methodology): “Adjustment of male provisioning has also been reported for N. orbicollis (Fetherston et al. 1994; Rauter & Moore 2004) and N. vespilloides (Smiseth et al. 2005).”
Infanticide, sexual selection and task specialization in a biparental burying beetle (2006, background): “In laboratory studies, the removal of the male parent has little effect on female parenting behaviour (Fetherston et al. 1994; Jenkins et al. 2000; Rauter & Moore 2004; Smiseth et al. 2005) or on reproductive success (Scott 1989; Trumbo & Fernandez 1995; Sakaluk et al.”
Age-specific reproductive investment in female burying beetles: independent effects of state and risk of death (2011, background): “In the laboratory, widowed females fully compensate for the 163 absence of males when caring for larvae (Smiseth et al., 2005).”