Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
Selection on the joint actions of pairs leads to divergent adaptation and coadaptation of care-giving parents during pre-hatching care
B. J. M. Jarrett, R. Mashoodh, S. Issar…·R. M. Kilner
The paper investigates how joint nest preparation behaviors evolve in burying beetles under different care regimes, finding that males adapt first and females coadapt secondarily.
DOI 10.1098/rspb.2024.0876