Article
Using Experimental Evolution to Study Adaptations for Life within the Family.
The American naturalist - 1 May 2015
Schrader Matthew, Jarrett Benjamin J M, Kilner Rebecca M
Abstract excerpt
Parents of many species provision their young, and the extent of parental provisioning constitutes a major component of the offspring's social environment. Thus, a change in parental provisioning can alter selection on offspring, resulting in the coevolution of parental and offspring traits. Although this reasoning is central to our evolutionary understanding of family life, there is little direct evidence that...
Topics
- Adaptation, Physiological
- Animals
- Behavior, Animal
- Biological Evolution
- Coleoptera
- Female
- Larva
- Male
- Phenotype