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Reference number: 35
Parental Investment Strategies | Date: 23rd August AM | | The symposium will address the genetic and environmental factors underlying variation in strategies of parental investment and brood care, including decisions about allocation of resources between reproduction and competing functions. The talks will address evolutionary and causal mechanisms of parental investment strategies, and address the role of developmental plasticity for the evolution of parental strategies. Specific topics addressed will include the trade-off between current vs. future reproduction and between investment in reproduction and growth, and parent-offspring conflict and sexual conflict over parental investment. | | Keywords: behaviour genetics, vertebrates, behavioural plasticity, parental investment, conflict |
| | Organizer(s): | | B Taborsky | Department of Biology, University of Bern |
| | D Heg | Department of Biology, University of Bern |
| | NJ Royle | University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK |
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| | Oral presentations: | | | 10.00-10.20 | Royle NJ, Hartley IR, Parker GA - Behavioural and life history consequences of biparental care in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) | | | 10.20-10.40 | Kosztolanyi A, Barta Z, Szekely T - Sexual conflict over parental care in the Kentish plover | | | 10.40-11.00 | van de Pol M, Heg D, Bruinzeel LW, Kuijper ALW, Verhulst S - Changes in reproductive performance during the pair bond | | | 11.00-11.20 | Forbes S - Head starts and handicaps: How parent birds manage sibling rivalry | | | - Coffee break - | | 11.40-12.00 | Bize P, Piault R, Moureau B, Heeb P - Condition dependent parental favoritism | | | 12.00-12.20 | Taborsky B - When should filial growth conditions of mothers determine their offspring size? | | | 12.20-12.40 | Kraus C - Investing in quality - life history strategy of a small precocial mammal | |
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