R. M. Kilner

The paper reveals sexual dimorphism in head size among wild burying beetles, showing males have wider heads than females for a given body size, with different scaling relationships between head width and body size.

This study shows burying beetles adjust their carrion choice based on past breeding success and previous carrion type.

This study shows parental care maintains genetic variation in Nicrophorus vespilloides, while its absence leads to reduced genetic diversity and divergence at specific loci.

The paper tests if evolutionary history predicts resilience to environmental change by comparing burying beetles evolved with or without parental care under heat stress.

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.

This study investigates how long social traits persist when not expressed, finding that offspring care demands decay faster than parental supply and male care decays more than female care in burying beetles.

This study shows that loss of parental care in burying beetles leads to changes in DNA methylation and gene expression, shifting from stress-related pathways to growth and brain development after 30 generations.

The paper shows that social interactions within a species determine whether interspecies interactions are mutualistic or parasitic.

This study shows that phoretic mites expand the thermal niche of burying beetles by reducing competition with blowflies, allowing beetles to reproduce across a wider temperature range.

The paper shows that subordinate males in burying beetles stimulate female fecundity more effectively than dominant males, leading to non-genetic inheritance of offspring body size and supporting telegony.

The paper shows that social interactions in burying beetles affect evolutionary responses to selection, with care enhancing increases in size and conflict limiting it.