Animal Behavior & CognitionbioRxivPreprint
Parental care is a genetic capacitor
Elise Parey, Thomas M. Houslay, Syuan‐Jyun Sun…·Rahia Mashoodh A
This study shows parental care in burying beetles acts as a genetic capacitor, storing and releasing genetic variation in offspring body size through molecular mechanisms involving chaperones and chromatin state.
DOI 10.64898/2026.06.09.731115