A hormone-related female anti-aphrodisiac signals temporary infertility and causes sexual abstinence to synchronize parental care
Parents are faced with the dilemma whether to invest in their current offspring, or potential future young. Here, Engel et al. show that nutritionally-dependent young induce temporary infertility in female burying beetles, which in turn is signalled to the male partner via a hormone-related anti-aph...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2016-03-01
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| Series: | Nature Communications |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11035 |