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SUMMARY:Life after death: Social evolution in a grave - Rebecca Kilner
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DESCRIPTION:Burying beetles require a small vertebrate carcass to reproduc
 e\, which they shave\, embalm and inter in a shallow grave and then use to
  provision their developing young. We are particularly interested in the i
 nteractions between the beetles and the microbial community that lives on 
 the carcass. We have investigated the nature of the antimicrobials produce
 d by the beetles to defend the carcass and we have tested whether the beet
 les recruit other species from the carrion community to assist in antimicr
 obial defence. We have also used metagenomics to analyse the microbiome of
  the carcass and to determine whether beetles actively manage its composit
 ion and structure – potentially to their own advantage.
LOCATION:Winstanley Lecture Theatre
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