Direct and Indirect Genetic Effects of Parental Care

非技术摘要提案编号：9808629 PI：标题：中国建筑业协会父母照顾的直接和间接遗传效应父母照顾，其中一方或双方提供资源或保护他们的后代，是普遍存在于几乎所有的动物税。行为生态学中有大量关于父母照顾行为的重要性和后果的文献。 并非所有人都以同样的方式履行父母的照顾。 环境因素对一个物种中个体间亲职照顾行为差异的影响已经得到了广泛的研究。 然而，较少研究的是这种变化的遗传成分在父母的照顾行为。 这项研究将提供经验数据的遗传效应在多大程度上是负责的变化，在父母照顾埋葬甲虫，Nicrophorus oricollis。 这些数据将允许估计父母照顾的进化性，即他们将提供信息的程度上的进化变化，这是可能的父母照顾行为在这个甲虫物种。 此外，这些数据将提供可能与行为变量相关的性状的遗传影响信息，如形态，生理和生活史特征。 这种遗传相关性可以反映性状的功能组，并将提供与父母照顾相关的任何性状（行为除外）的见解。 这项研究将促进我们对父母照顾进化的理解，以及为什么父母照顾在一个物种中的个体之间可能会有所不同。

NONTECHNICAL ABSTRACTProposal Number: 9808629PI: Rauter, Claudia Title: Direct and Indirect Genetic Effects of Parental CareParental care, where either one or both parents provide resources or protection of their offspring, is widespread among nearly all animal tax. There is a large literature within behavioral ecology on the importance and consequences of parental care behavior. Not all individuals perform parental care in the same way. Environmental causes of differences in parental care behavior among individuals in a species have been extensively studied. However, less well studied are genetic components of such variation in parental care behavior. This research will provide empirical data on the extent to which genetic effects are responsible for variation in parental care in a burying beetle, Nicrophorus oricollis. These data will permit estimation of evolvability of parental care; i.e. they will provide information on the extent of evolutionary change that is possible in parental care behavior in this beetle species. Further these data will provide information genetic influences on traits that may be correlated with the behavioral variables, such as morphological, physiological and life historical characters. Such genetic correlations can reflect functional groups of traits and will provide insights into any traits, other than behavior, associated with parental care. The research will foster our understanding of the evolution of parental care and why parental care may vary among individuals in a species.