Transcriptomes of parents identify parenting strategies and sexual conflict in a subsocial beetle
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Yn: Nature Communications, Cyfrol 6, 29.09.2015, t. 8449.
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T1 - Transcriptomes of parents identify parenting strategies and sexual conflict in a subsocial beetle
AU - Parker, Darren J
AU - Cunningham, Christopher B
AU - Walling, Craig A
AU - Stamper, Clare E
AU - Head, Megan L
AU - Roy-Zokan, Eileen M
AU - McKinney, Elizabeth C
AU - Ritchie, Michael G
AU - Moore, Allen J
PY - 2015/9/29
Y1 - 2015/9/29
N2 - Parenting in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides is complex and, unusually, the sex and number of parents that can be present is flexible. Such flexibility is expected to involve specialized behaviour by the two sexes under biparental conditions. Here, we show that offspring fare equally well regardless of the sex or number of parents present. Comparing transcriptomes, we find a largely overlapping set of differentially expressed genes in both uniparental and biparental females and in uniparental males including vitellogenin, associated with reproduction, and takeout, influencing sex-specific mating and feeding behaviour. Gene expression in biparental males is similar to that in non-caring states. Thus, being 'biparental' in N. vespilloides describes the family social organization rather than the number of directly parenting individuals. There was no specialization; instead, in biparental families, direct male parental care appears to be limited with female behaviour unchanged. This should lead to strong sexual conflict.
AB - Parenting in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides is complex and, unusually, the sex and number of parents that can be present is flexible. Such flexibility is expected to involve specialized behaviour by the two sexes under biparental conditions. Here, we show that offspring fare equally well regardless of the sex or number of parents present. Comparing transcriptomes, we find a largely overlapping set of differentially expressed genes in both uniparental and biparental females and in uniparental males including vitellogenin, associated with reproduction, and takeout, influencing sex-specific mating and feeding behaviour. Gene expression in biparental males is similar to that in non-caring states. Thus, being 'biparental' in N. vespilloides describes the family social organization rather than the number of directly parenting individuals. There was no specialization; instead, in biparental families, direct male parental care appears to be limited with female behaviour unchanged. This should lead to strong sexual conflict.
KW - Animals
KW - Coleoptera/genetics
KW - Female
KW - Gene Expression Profiling
KW - Male
KW - Molecular Sequence Data
KW - Sexual Behavior, Animal/physiology
KW - Social Behavior
KW - Transcriptome
U2 - 10.1038/ncomms9449
DO - 10.1038/ncomms9449
M3 - Article
C2 - 26416581
VL - 6
SP - 8449
JO - Nature Communications
JF - Nature Communications
SN - 2041-1723
ER -