🧪Did you know that #beetles 🐞 can compensate for a poor #NutritionalEnvironment experienced during sexual maturation? 🤔

Read this #publication to know all about this ➡️ doi.org/10.1002/ece3.72210

#LifeHistory #BuryingBeetle #NutritionalStatus #EvolutionaryEcology #Ecology #SciComm

Inbreeding reduces the ability of young to exploit high-resource nurseries Abstract. Parents of many species create a “nursery” in which young develop, and variation in this environment can influence offspring phenotype and fitnes

Inbreeding reduces the ability of young to exploit high-resource nurseries

#inbreedingdepression #parentalcare #nicrophorus #buryingbeetle

Matthew Schrader

doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

Cooperation of burying beetles and their microbiota on carcasses www.uni-mainz.de/presse/aktuell/1628_ENG_... #BuryingBeetle