Brood guarding and the evolution of male parental care in burying beetles

By M. Scott. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2004

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Phytotelm size in relation to parental care and mating strategies in two species of Peruvian poison frogs (2008, background): “Offspring feeding competition might also play an important role in the evolution of biparental care and is observed in many biparental care species (Milne & Milne, 1976; Talamy, 1984; Scott, 1990).”
Access to mutualistic endosymbiotic microbes: an underappreciated benefit of group living (2008, background): “Growing larvae consume the nest and the female feeds them a brown fluid that she regurgitates directly into their mouths (Scott 1990; Scott and Traniello 1990).”
Infanticide, sexual selection and task specialization in a biparental burying beetle (2006, background): “The percentage of take-overs under natural conditions ranges from 0 to 55% and varies with species, study site, time of year and size of carcass (Scott 1990; Trumbo 1990a, 1991; Robertson 1993; Suzuki 2000).”
Population density, body size, and phenotypic plasticity of brood size in a burying beetle (2005, background): “Population densities of burying beetles vary considerably over space and time (Scott, 1990; Scott and Gladstein, 1993; Smith et al., 2000; Creighton JC, personal observation).”