Parental Care

Recent Papers

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The Benefits of Help in Cooperative Birds: Nonexistent or Difficult to Detect?

Philip A. Downing, Ashleigh S. Griffin, and Charlie K. Cornwallis

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/June-Downing.html

Maternal Investment, Ecological Lifestyle, and Brain Evolution in Sharks and Rays

Christopher G. Mull, Kara E. Yopak, and Nicholas K. Dulvy

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/June-Mull.html

Parental Age Effects and the Evolution of Senescence

Patrick M. Barks and Robert A. Laird

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/May-Barks.html

Age-Related Brood Parasitism and Egg Rejection in Magpie Hosts

Juan Gabriel Martínez, Mercedes Molina-Morales, Marta Precioso, and Jesús Miguel Avilés

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/May-Martinez.html

Condition-Dependent Begging Elicits Increased Parental Investment in a Wild Bird Population

E. Keith Bowers, Jonathan B. Jenkins, Alexander J. Mueller, Kelly D. Miller, Charles F. Thompson, and Scott K. Sakaluk

Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/MayBowers.html

Age-Specific Offspring Mortality Economically Tracks Food Abundance in a Piscivorous Seabird
Oscar Vedder, He Zhang, Andreas Dänhardt, and Sandra Bouwhuis
Summary: https://amnat.org/an/newpapers/AprVedder.html

Evolution of Personal and Social Immunity in the Context of Parental Care
Michelle A. Ziadie, Felicia Ebot-Ojong, Elizabeth C. McKinney, and Allen J. Moore
Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/FebZiadie.html

Multiple Evolutionary Routes to Monogamy: Modeling the Coevolution of Mating Decisions and Parental Investment

Arne Jungwirth and Rufus A. Johnstone

Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/FebJungwirth.html

Open Access

Disentangling Pre- and Postnatal Maternal Age Effects on Offspring Performance in an Insect with Elaborate Maternal Care

Edward Ivimey-Cook and Jacob Moorad

Effects of Offspring and Parental Inbreeding on Parent-Offspring Communication

Sarah N. Mattey, Jon Richardson, Tom Ratz, and Per T. Smiseth