When earwig mothers do not care to share: Parent-offspring competition and the evolution of family life

The price of associating with breeders in the cooperatively breeding chestnut-crowned babbler: foraging constraints, survival and sociality

(2016) Enrico Sorato et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Maternal condition determines offspring behavior toward family members in the European earwig

(2015) Jos Kramer et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Negative association between parental care and sibling cooperation in earwigs: a new perspective on the early evolution of family life?

(2015) J. Kramer et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Short-term benefits, but transgenerational costs of maternal loss in an insect with facultative maternal care

(2015) Julia Thesing et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A comparison of observation-level random effect and Beta-Binomial models for modelling overdispersion in Binomial data in ecology & evolution

(2015) Xavier A. Harrison   PeerJ

Sibling Cooperation in Earwig Families Provides Insights into the Early Evolution of Social Life

(2014) Joachim Falk et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Mother and offspring fitness in an insect with maternal care: phenotypic trade-offs between egg number, egg mass and egg care

(2014) Lisa K Koch et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Cues of Maternal Condition Influence Offspring Selfishness

(2014) Janine W. Y. Wong et al.   PLoS One

The evolution of parental care in insects: the roles of ecology, life history and the social environment

(2013) JANINE W. Y. WONG et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Inbreeding depression in an insect with maternal care: influences of family interactions, life stage and offspring sex

(2013) J. Meunier et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

When it is costly to have a caring mother: food limitation erases the benefits of parental care in earwigs

(2012) J. Meunier et al.   Biology Letters

The Effect of Female Condition on Maternal Care in the European Earwig

(2012) Janine W. Y. Wong et al.   ETHOLOGY

Female Burying Beetles Benefit from Male Desertion: Sexual Conflict and Counter-Adaptation over Parental Investment

(2012) Giuseppe Boncoraglio et al.   PLoS One

One clutch or two clutches? Fitness correlates of coexisting alternative female life-histories in the European earwig

(2011) Joël Meunier et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Parents and offspring in an evolutionary game: the effect of supply on demand when costs of care vary

(2011) U. Grodzinski et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Sense and sensitivity: responsiveness to offspring signals varies with the parents' potential to breed again

(2011) R. Thorogood et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Offspring quality and the evolution of cainism

(2010) ROBERT SIMMONS   IBIS

Evolution of parental care driven by mutual reinforcement of parental food provisioning and sibling competition

(2010) A. Gardner et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Parent-Offspring Conflict and Coadaptation

(2010) C. A. Hinde et al.   SCIENCE

Kin-selected siblicide and cannibalism in the European earwig

(2009) Ralph Dobler et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Current brood size and residual reproductive value predict offspring desertion in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides

(2009) Richard J.S. Ward et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

LIFE HISTORY AND THE EVOLUTION OF PARENTAL CARE

(2009) Hope Klug et al.   EVOLUTION

What is individual quality? An evolutionary perspective

(2009) Alastair J. Wilson et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Maternal Food Regurgitation to Nymphs in Earwigs (Forficula auricularia)

(2008) Michael Staerkle et al.   ETHOLOGY

Parent-offspring conflict and co-adaptation: behavioural ecology meets quantitative genetics

(2008) P. T Smiseth et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES