takeout gene expression is associated with temporal kin recognition.

ABSTRACT: A key component of parental care is avoiding killing and eating one's own offspring. Many organisms commit infanticide but switch to parental care when their own offspring are expected, known as temporal kin recognition. It is unclear why such types of indirect kin recognition are so common across taxa. One possibility is that temporal kin recognition may evolve through alteration of simple mechanisms, such as co-opting mechanisms that influence the regulation of timing and feeding in other contexts. Here, we determine whether takeout, a gene implicated in coordinating feeding, influences temporal kin recognition in Nicrophorus orbicollis. We found that takeout expression was not associated with non-parental feeding changes resulting from hunger, or a general transitio

SUBMITTER: Potticary AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10445020 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature