Small body size in an insect shifts development, prior to adult eclosion, towards early reproduction

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1590, 2006, Pages 1099-1103

  Thorne, Ashley D ^a   Pexton, John J ^a,b   Dytham, Calvin ^a   Mayhew, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Ecological developmental biology; Hymenoptera; Life histories; Oogenesis; Ovigeny index

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BODY SIZE; EGG PRODUCTION; FECUNDITY; LIFE HISTORY THEORY; LONGEVITY; REPRODUCTION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SIZE EFFECT; WASP;

ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APHAERETA GENEVENSIS; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG; EGG PRODUCTION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HINDLIMB; HYMENOPTERA; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; JUVENILE; LONGEVITY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARASITOID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SCORING SYSTEM; TIBIA; WASP; ANIMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

APHAERETA GENEVENSIS; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; LONGEVITY; OOGENESIS; REPRODUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WASPS;

EID: 33746670146     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3416     Document Type: Article

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