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Evolutionary change in the construction of the nursery environment when parents are prevented from caring for their young directly.

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cam.issuedOnline2021-11-24
dc.contributor.authorDuarte, Ana
dc.contributor.authorRebar, Darren
dc.contributor.authorHallett, Allysa C
dc.contributor.authorJarrett, Benjamin JM
dc.contributor.authorKilner, Rebecca M
dc.contributor.orcidDuarte, Ana [0000-0002-1215-0458]
dc.contributor.orcidRebar, Darren [0000-0001-6170-2100]
dc.contributor.orcidJarrett, Benjamin JM [0000-0003-2071-6076]
dc.contributor.orcidKilner, Rebecca M [0000-0003-1159-0758]
dc.date.accessioned2021-12-15T12:14:16Z
dc.date.available2021-12-15T12:14:16Z
dc.date.issued2021-11-30
dc.date.updated2021-12-15T12:14:15Z
dc.descriptionFunder: EC | FP7 | FP7 Ideas: European Research Council (FP7 Ideas); Id: 100011199; Grant(s): 310785
dc.description.abstractParental care can be partitioned into traits that involve direct engagement with offspring and traits that are expressed as an extended phenotype and influence the developmental environment, such as constructing a nursery. Here, we use experimental evolution to test whether parents can evolve modifications in nursery construction when they are experimentally prevented from supplying care directly to offspring. We exposed replicate experimental populations of burying beetles (Nicrophorus vespilloides) to different regimes of posthatching care by allowing larvae to develop in the presence (Full Care) or absence of parents (No Care). After only 13 generations of experimental evolution, we found an adaptive evolutionary increase in the pace at which parents in the No Care populations converted a dead body into a carrion nest for larvae. Cross-fostering experiments further revealed that No Care larvae performed better on a carrion nest prepared by No Care parents than did Full Care larvae. We conclude that parents construct the nursery environment in relation to their effectiveness at supplying care directly, after offspring are born. When direct care is prevented entirely, they evolve to make compensatory adjustments to the nursery in which their young will develop. The rapid evolutionary change observed in our experiments suggests there is considerable standing genetic variation for parental care traits in natural burying beetle populations-for reasons that remain unclear.
dc.identifier.doi10.17863/CAM.78962
dc.identifier.eissn1091-6490
dc.identifier.issn0027-8424
dc.identifier.other202102450
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/331508
dc.languageen
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
dc.publisher.urlhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2102450118
dc.subjectburying beetle
dc.subjectexperimental evolution
dc.subjectextended phenotype
dc.subjectlocal adaptation
dc.subjectparental care
dc.subjectAdaptation, Psychological
dc.subjectAnimals
dc.subjectBehavior, Animal
dc.subjectBiological Evolution
dc.subjectColeoptera
dc.subjectFemale
dc.subjectLarva
dc.subjectMaternal Behavior
dc.subjectMaternal Deprivation
dc.subjectParent-Child Relations
dc.subjectPhenotype
dc.subjectPregnancy
dc.titleEvolutionary change in the construction of the nursery environment when parents are prevented from caring for their young directly.
dc.typeArticle
dcterms.dateAccepted2021-09-10
prism.issueIdentifier48
prism.publicationNameProc Natl Acad Sci U S A
prism.volume118
pubs.funder-project-idEuropean Research Council (310785)
rioxxterms.licenseref.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
rioxxterms.versionVoR
rioxxterms.versionofrecord10.1073/pnas.2102450118

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