An Overview of Post-Fertilization Parental Care in Gobiidae
Parental care increases offspring survival but is typically costly to the parent providing it. Understanding diversity in parental care across animals is a timely topic in evolutionary ecology. Fishes are particularly well suited for studies aimed at understanding the diversity of parental care beca...
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| description | Parental care increases offspring survival but is typically costly to the parent providing it. Understanding diversity in parental care across animals is a timely topic in evolutionary ecology. Fishes are particularly well suited for studies aimed at understanding the diversity of parental care because parental care in fishes is highly variable across species. In most fish species, no care is provided. When parental care is provided, it is often paternal, although biparental and maternal care occur in some fish species as well. Parental care in fishes ranges from simple guarding of eggs in a territory to prolonged care of young after hatching. Within fishes, gobies are thought to exhibit diverse parental care. In the current manuscript, we begin to synthesize our knowledge of patterns of parental care in gobies by providing a review of the parental care strategies that are exhibited by gobiid species. Our review reveals that parental care in gobies most often includes guarding, fanning, and cleaning, although some species engage in other types of care such as larval release, the production of antimicrobial substances, and the construction of post-mating mounds. Care in gobies is most often paternal, but maternal and biparental care have been documented in some species. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-c1084d76b77c4bff9e5f40b2dbcbe23c2025-07-25T13:20:10ZengMDPI AGDiversity1424-28182025-06-0117744610.3390/d17070446An Overview of Post-Fertilization Parental Care in GobiidaeMiguel Trujillo-García0Bertha Patricia Ceballos-Vázquez1Palestina Guevara-Fiore2Hope Klug3Instituto Politécnico Nacional (CICIMAR-IPN), Av. Instituto Politécnico Nacional s/n, Col. Playa Palo de Santa Rita, La Paz C.P. 23096, MexicoInstituto Politécnico Nacional (CICIMAR-IPN), Av. Instituto Politécnico Nacional s/n, Col. Playa Palo de Santa Rita, La Paz C.P. 23096, MexicoFacultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Blvd. Valsequillo y Av. San Claudio, Col. Jardines de San Manuel, Puebla C.P. 72580, MexicoDepartment of Biology, Geology, and Environmental Science, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 615 McCallie Avenue, Chattanooga, TN 37403, USAParental care increases offspring survival but is typically costly to the parent providing it. Understanding diversity in parental care across animals is a timely topic in evolutionary ecology. Fishes are particularly well suited for studies aimed at understanding the diversity of parental care because parental care in fishes is highly variable across species. In most fish species, no care is provided. When parental care is provided, it is often paternal, although biparental and maternal care occur in some fish species as well. Parental care in fishes ranges from simple guarding of eggs in a territory to prolonged care of young after hatching. Within fishes, gobies are thought to exhibit diverse parental care. In the current manuscript, we begin to synthesize our knowledge of patterns of parental care in gobies by providing a review of the parental care strategies that are exhibited by gobiid species. Our review reveals that parental care in gobies most often includes guarding, fanning, and cleaning, although some species engage in other types of care such as larval release, the production of antimicrobial substances, and the construction of post-mating mounds. Care in gobies is most often paternal, but maternal and biparental care have been documented in some species.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/17/7/446paternal carebiparental carenest guardingegg fanningegg cleaningremoval |
| spellingShingle | Miguel Trujillo-García Bertha Patricia Ceballos-Vázquez Palestina Guevara-Fiore Hope Klug An Overview of Post-Fertilization Parental Care in Gobiidae Diversity paternal care biparental care nest guarding egg fanning egg cleaning removal |
| title | An Overview of Post-Fertilization Parental Care in Gobiidae |
| title_full | An Overview of Post-Fertilization Parental Care in Gobiidae |
| title_fullStr | An Overview of Post-Fertilization Parental Care in Gobiidae |
| title_full_unstemmed | An Overview of Post-Fertilization Parental Care in Gobiidae |
| title_short | An Overview of Post-Fertilization Parental Care in Gobiidae |
| title_sort | overview of post fertilization parental care in gobiidae |
| topic | paternal care biparental care nest guarding egg fanning egg cleaning removal |
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