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Overview

Per T. Smiseth is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on insect ecology, behavior, and evolutionary biology, with a strong emphasis on burying beetles and related insect species.

Their recent publications include:

  • Revisiting the ecology and evolution of burying beetle behavior (Staphylinidae: Silphinae), 2024, Ecology and Evolution
  • Maternity uncertainty in cobreeding beetles: females lay more and larger eggs and provide less care, 2020, Behavioral Ecology
  • Increased allocation to reproduction reduces future competitive ability in a burying beetle, 2020, Journal of Animal Ecology
  • Access to Resources Shapes Sex Differences Between Caring Parents, 2021, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Flexible females: nutritional state influences biparental cooperation in a burying beetle, 2024, Behavioral Ecology

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Smiseth include:

  • Jon Richardson
  • Tom Ratz
  • Georgia A. Lambert
  • Lyndon Leissle
  • Lucy E. Ford

Major publication venues for Smiseth's work are:

  • Behavioral Ecology
  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • Ecology and Evolution
  • Journal of Evolutionary Biology
  • Animal Behaviour

Smiseth's research fields span across:

  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Within these domains, key subfields include:

  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Insect Science
  • Genetics
  • Ecology
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

The main topics of research cover:

  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Insect and Pesticide Research
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Forest Insect Ecology and Management
  • Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
  • Insect Utilization and Effects

Best Publications

  • The evolution of parental care

    Nick J. Royle;Per T. Smiseth;Mathias Kölliker

  • Antimicrobial strategies in burying beetles breeding on carrion

    D. E. Rozen;D. J. P. Engelmoer;Per T. Smiseth

  • Partial begging: an empirical model for the early evolution of offspring signalling

    Per T. Smiseth;Clive T. Darwell;Allen J. Moore

  • How do caring parents respond to mate loss? Differential response by males and females

    Per T. Smiseth;Carolyn Dawson;Elizabeth Varley;Allen J. Moore

  • Does resource availability affect offspring begging and parental provisioning in a partially begging species

    Per T Smiseth;Allen J Moore

  • Selection, inheritance, and the evolution of parent-offspring interactions

    Judith E. Lock;Per T. Smiseth;Allen J. Moore

  • What is parental care

    Per T. Smiseth;Mathias Kölliker;Nick J. Royle

  • Behavioral dynamics between caring males and females in a beetle with facultative biparental care

    Per T. Smiseth;Allen J. Moore

  • Parent-offspring conflict and co-adaptation: behavioural ecology meets quantitative genetics.

    Per T Smiseth;Jonathan Wright;Mathias Kölliker

  • Mechanisms and fitness effects of antibacterial defences in a carrion beetle.

    A. N. Arce;P. R. Johnston;P. T. Smiseth;D. E. Rozen

  • The quantitative genetics of sex differences in parenting

    Craig A. Walling;Clare E. Stamper;Per T. Smiseth;Allen J. Moore

  • Asynchronous hatching in Nicrophorus vespilloides, an insect in which parents provide food for their offspring

    Per T. Smiseth;R J S Ward;A J Moore

  • INTERACTION BETWEEN PARENTAL CARE AND SIBLING COMPETITION: PARENTS ENHANCE OFFSPRING GROWTH AND EXACERBATE SIBLING COMPETITION

    Per T. Smiseth;Laura Lennox;Allen J. Moore

  • PARENTS INFLUENCE ASYMMETRIC SIBLING COMPETITION: EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE WITH PARTIALLY DEPENDENT YOUNG

    Per T. Smiseth;Richard J. S. Ward;Allen J. Moore

  • Coadaptation of Prenatal and Postnatal Maternal Effects

    Judith E. Lock;Per T. Smiseth;Patricia J. Moore;Allen J. Moore

  • Evolution of parental care driven by mutual reinforcement of parental food provisioning and sibling competition

    Andy Gardner;Per T. Smiseth

  • Does female plumage coloration signal parental quality? A male removal experiment with the bluethroat (Luscinia s. svecica)

    P. T. Smiseth;T. Amundsen

  • Is male plumage reflectance correlated with paternal care in bluethroats

    Per T. Smiseth;Jonas Örnborg;Staffan Andersson;Trond Amundsen

  • Signalling of hunger when offspring forage by both begging and self-feeding

    Per T. Smiseth;Allen J. Moore

  • Hormonal regulation of offspring begging and mediation of parent–offspring conflict

    Per T. Smiseth;Michelle Pellissier Scott;Clare Andrews

  • Evolution of Parental Care

    Per T. Smiseth

Frequent Co-Authors

Allen J. Moore
Allen J. Moore University of Georgia
Nick J. Royle
Nick J. Royle University of Exeter
Trond Amundsen
Trond Amundsen Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Mathias Kölliker
Mathias Kölliker University of Basel
Jill G. Pilkington
Jill G. Pilkington University of Edinburgh
Alastair J. Wilson
Alastair J. Wilson University of Exeter
Richard J. Ward
Richard J. Ward Universidade de São Paulo
Josephine M. Pemberton
Josephine M. Pemberton University of Edinburgh
Staffan Andersson
Staffan Andersson University of Gothenburg
Hugh D. Piggins
Hugh D. Piggins University of Bristol

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