Concepts

Parental behaviors including female-pup interactions, vigilance, and antipredator behaviors that influence offspring survival and development

Competition where individuals attempt to take over established breeding resources from other pairs

Burying beetle reproductive strategy where pairs bury small carrion for breeding and larval development

A small chemical modification that occurs in most cytosines that are followed by a guanine (CpGs) in mammalian genomes, serving as an epigenetic marker.

Sound production in insects by rubbing body parts together, in burying beetles occurs when plectrum on elytra rubs against par stridens on abdomen

Major histocompatibility complex genes involved in antigen presentation and immune response