SMISETH, Per - University of Edinburgh - School of Biological Sciences

个人简介

1999 PhD, Norwegian University of Science and Technology 2000-2002 Research Council of Norway Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester 2002-2005 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester 2005-2008 NERC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester 2008-Present Lecturer in Animal Behaviour, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh

研究领域

I am interested in the evolution of parental care and the evolutionary resolution of conflicts within families over the allocation of care. My background is from behavioural ecology, but I am currently interested in the integration between behavioural ecology, quantitative genetics and behavioural endocrinology. My main study system is the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides, but I have a broad taxonomic background that includes work on birds and mammals. Current research projects focus on the evolution of parental care, the quantitative genetics of parental care, the evolution of parent-offspring communication and its role in conflict resolution, the evolution of sibling competition, sexual conflict between male and female parents, the adaptive value of asynchronous hatching, the hormonal regulation of offspring begging, and resource competition between animals and microbes.

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Smiseth, P.T., Andrews, C., Brown, E. & Prentice, P. 2010. Chemical stimuli from parents trigger larval begging in burying beetles. Behavioral Ecology 21: 526-531. Smiseth, P.T. & Morgan, K. 2009. Asynchronous hatching in burying beetles: a test of the peak load hypothesis. Animal Behaviour 77: 519-524. Crook, T.C., Flatt, T. and Smiseth, P.T. 2008. Hormonal modulation of larval begging and growth in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides. Animal Behaviour 75: 71-77. Rozen, D.E., Engelmoer, D.J.P. & Smiseth, P.T. 2008. Antimicrobial strategies in burying beetles breeding on carrion. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 105: 17890-17895. Smiseth, P.T., Hwang, W., Steiger, S. and Muller, J.K. 2008. Adaptive consequences and heritable basis of asynchronous hatching in Nicrophorus vespilloides. Oikos 117: 899-907. Smiseth, P.T., Wright, J. & Kolliker, M. 2008. Parent-offspring conflict and co-adaptation: behavioural ecology meets quantitative genetics. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 275, 1823-1830. Walling, C.A., Stamper, C.E., Smiseth, P.T. & Moore, A.J. 2008. The quantitative genetics of sex differences in parenting. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 105: 18430-18435. Smiseth, P.T., Lennox, L. and Moore, A.J. 2007. Interaction between parental care and sibling competition: parents enhance offspring growth and exacerbate sibling competition. Evolution 61: 2331-2339. Smiseth, P.T., Ward, R.S.J. and Moore, A.J. 2007. Parents influence asymmetric sibling competition: experimental evidence with partially dependent young. Ecology 88: 3174-3182. Lock, J.E., Smiseth, P.T., Moore, P.J. & Moore, A.J. 2007. Coadaptation of prenatal and postnatal maternal effects. American Naturalist 170: 709-718.