sjsun.bsky.social

sjsun.bsky.social

@sjsun.bsky.social

Behavioural ecologist, Associate Professor in IPCS, National Taiwan University - host-symbiont interactions, plasticity, climate change and urbanisation ecology in burying beetles https://sites.google.com/view/sjsun/home

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Burying beetles are thought to bury carcasses to limit competition. Could burial also buffer offspring against warming? In our new paper at #npjBiodiversity, we found that deeper burial benefits offspring under heat stress, but mothers pay a price in body mass. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

nature.comBehavioural plasticity buffers offspring from heat stress but imposes somatic costs on parents - npj Biodiversitynpj Biodiversity - Behavioural plasticity buffers offspring from heat stress but imposes somatic costs on parents
sjsun.bsky.social
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Brief mite contact alone made females "produce more," matching broods bred with mites—at half the body mass loss. But only persistent mites unmasked a classic trade-off: more offspring, shorter life. Without mites, producing more actually meant living longer.

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Very happy to share our new paper that we explored the complex triangle between burying beetles, mites, and nematodes. Turns out, whether hitchhiking mites act as friends or foes to their hosts depends entirely on who else is in the room. doi.org/10.1038/s420...

doi.orgContext-dependent indirect effects mediate ecological transitions between parasitism and mutualism - Communications BiologyPhoretic mites shift between mutualism and parasitism on burying beetles depending on nematode density, with mites suppressing nematodes and reshaping carcass microbiomes, revealing indirect effects d...

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