Parental care shapes evolution of aposematism and provides lifelong protection against predators
C. Lindstedt, G. Boncoraglio, S. Cotter, J. Gilbert, R. Kilner
The paper shows that parental care in burying beetles affects the development of warning signals and chemical defenses in offspring, reducing genetic correlations between these traits when care is limited.
bioRxiv · May 23, 2019 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology