The origin and maintenance of individual variation in burying beetles, Nicrophorus vespilloides

我的项目探讨了社会进化如何驱动变化。社会互动被广泛认为是进化变化的主要驱动力，特别是父母和后代之间的社会互动。我的项目集中在家庭内的变化，分析父母照顾的差异模式如何影响一窝中的形态变化。我一直在使用野生种群和实验进化种群的埋葬甲虫，Nicrophorus vespilloides作为模型生物来解决这个问题。

My project explores how social evolution drives variation. Social interactions are widely regarded as a major driver of evolutionary change, notably the social interactions between parents and offspring. My project focuses on variation within the family, analysing how differential patterns of parental care influence morphological variation within a brood. I have been using both wild populations, and experimentally evolving populations of the burying beetle, Nicrophorus vespilloides as a model organism to address this question.