A hormone-related female anti-aphrodisiac signals temporary infertility and causes sexual abstinence to synchronize parental care
Katharina C. Engel, Johannes Stökl, Rebecca Schweizer and 4 more
Nature Communications · 2016
doi:10.1038/ncomms11035 (opens in a new tab)
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Abstract
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-aphrodisiac.
Abstract licence: CC BY-NC-ND
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