Parental care: when the sex has to stop.

Royle, NJ

Parental care: when the sex has to stop.

https://hdl.handle.net/10871/22220
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posted on 2025-07-31, 15:19 authored by NJ Royle

How is sexual conflict during reproduction resolved when parents collaborate to rear offspring? A new study shows that female burying beetles communicate their hormonal status to their male partners to avoid costly superfluous mating, using an anti-aphrodisiac pheromone.

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This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from the publisher via the DOI in this record.

External DOI

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2016.04.052

Journal

Current Biology

Publisher

Elsevier (Cell Press)

Place published

England

Language

en

Citation

Vol. 26, pp. R478 - R480

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