Effects of Nutritional Status During Sexual Maturation and Resource Availability on the Resource Allocation of Females in Burying Beetles.

ABSTRACT: Resource availability should have consequences for life-history functions and trade-offs among them because it influences the amounts of resources allocated to different functions. Nutritional status during a key developmental window (sexual maturation) may also have an important impact on life-history functions and such trade-offs. However, less is known about whether and how they interact to influence the resource allocation of individuals. Here, we simultaneously manipulated female nutritional status during sexual maturation and resource availability during breeding in a burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides. We then monitored the main and interactive effects of these two factors on somatic maintenance and reproductive performance of burying beetle females. We found that variat

SUBMITTER: Wang W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11724369 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature