Fitness consequences of temperature-mediated egg size plasticity in a butterfly

Functional Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 803-810

  Fischer, K ^a,b   Bot, A N M ^a   Brakefield, P M ^a   Zwaan, B J ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive phenotypic plasticity; Beneficial acclimation; Desiccation resistance; Offspring size; Starvation resistance

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BUTTERFLY; EGG SIZE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; TEMPERATURE;

BICYCLUS; BICYCLUS ANYNANA; LEPIDOPTERA; NYMPHALIDAE;

EID: 0346336833     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2003.00798.x     Document Type: Article

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