No evidence for increased fitness of offspring from multigenerational effects of parental size or natal carcass size in the burying beetle Nicrophorus marginatus

• Ethan P. Damron ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ethan P. Damron, Mark C. Belk

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, United States of America

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• Ashlee N. Smith ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, United States of America

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• Dane Jo ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2913-9239

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• Mark C. Belk

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ethan P. Damron, Mark C. Belk

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mark_belk@byu.edu

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0576-0717

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