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Offspring overcome poor parenting by being better parents.

Ahva L Potticary¹, Christopher B Cunningham¹, Allen J Moore¹

¹Department of Entomology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States.

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|January 29, 2024

Summary

Parental effects can negatively impact offspring fitness, but offspring behavior can mitigate these effects. In burying beetles, reduced parental care harmed offspring development, but parents compensated, preventing generational harm.

Keywords:

behavioural buffering maternal effect paternal effect transgenerational effect

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Area of Science:

Evolutionary Biology
Behavioral Ecology
Animal Behavior

Background:

Parental effects, the influence of parental environment on offspring, are often viewed as static and potentially harmful across generations.
However, offspring may actively modify the persistence of these parental effects through their own behaviors.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate how offspring behavior can overcome negative parental effects in the burying beetle, Nicrophorus orbicollis.
To experimentally determine if behavioral plasticity in parents can mitigate the transgenerational consequences of poor developmental environments.

Main Methods:

Cross-fostering experiments were used to manipulate the duration of parental care received by F1 offspring.
The impact of varying parental care on F1 and F2 offspring traits, including development time, body size, and reproductive success, was measured.

Main Results:

Reduced parental care negatively affected F1 offspring development time and body size.
Parents that experienced reduced care as larvae exhibited increased feeding behavior towards their own F2 offspring.
Despite parental developmental history, F2 offspring number and mass remained unaffected.

Conclusions:

Flexible parental care behaviors can compensate for poor developmental environments.
Negative parental effects may be limited to a single generation due to adaptive behavioral responses in offspring.