Rebecca M. Kilner

This study shows parental care in burying beetles acts as a genetic capacitor, storing and releasing genetic variation in offspring body size through molecular mechanisms involving chaperones and chromatin state.

The paper examines the form and function of a weapon system in burying beetles, showing sexual dimorphism in mandibles and head width, but similar combat effectiveness between sexes.

This study investigates how nest construction affects post-hatching care in burying beetles, finding little evidence of divergent evolution in nest traits influencing parental investment.

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.

The paper shows that metabolic division of labour in burying beetles changes plastically and evolves when post-hatching care is removed, with larvae from populations without care being more successful in carrion consumption and survival.

The paper investigates how competition among mite lineages affects co-adaptation between Nicrophorus vespilloides beetles and their Poecilochirus carabi mites in different woodlands.

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.