Maternal behaviour supplying offspring with resources and potentially bioactive transferred material. Resource quantity and material composition can affect offspring differently.
A provisioned dung mass surrounding the developmental site of an individual dung-beetle offspring. Its food quantity and maternal contributions can be manipulated separately.
Maternal faecal material associated with the egg chamber in certain dung beetles. Ingested material can provide an indirect route of maternal microbial transfer.
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