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| Title |
Maternal effects on male weaponry: female dung beetles produce major sons with longer horns when they perceive higher population density
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| Published in |
BMC Ecology and Evolution, July 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2148-12-118 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Bruno A Buzatto, Joseph L Tomkins, Leigh W Simmons |
| Abstract |
Maternal effects are environmental influences on the phenotype of one individual that are due to the expression of genes in its mother, and are expected to evolve whenever females are better capable of assessing the environmental conditions that their offspring will experience than the offspring themselves. In the dung beetle Onthophagus taurus, conditional male dimorphism is associated with alternative reproductive tactics: majors fight and guard females whereas minors sneak copulations. Furthermore, variation in dung beetle population density has different fitness consequences for each male morph, and theory predicts that higher population density might select for a higher frequency of minors and/or greater expenditure on weaponry in majors. Because adult dung beetles provide offspring with all the nutritional resources for their development, maternal effects strongly influence male phenotype. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 7 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 4 | 57% |
| United States | 2 | 29% |
| Unknown | 1 | 14% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 4 | 57% |
| Scientists | 2 | 29% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 14% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 106 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 2 | 2% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Switzerland | 1 | <1% |
| Australia | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 100 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 37 | 35% |
| Researcher | 15 | 14% |
| Student > Master | 12 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 6 | 6% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 6 | 6% |
| Other | 16 | 15% |
| Unknown | 14 | 13% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 74 | 70% |
| Environmental Science | 3 | 3% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 3 | 3% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 2 | 2% |
| Psychology | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 3 | 3% |
| Unknown | 20 | 19% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 22 August 2012.
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#7,030,338
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#1,577
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#48,273
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#28
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