Environmental dependence of thermal reaction norms: Host plant quality can reverse the temperature-size rule

American Naturalist

Volumn 175, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-10

  Diamond, Sarah E ^a   Kingsolver, Joel G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Diet quality; Life history trade off; Manduca sexta; Phenotypic plasticity; Temperature size rule; Thermal reaction norm

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; DOMESTIC SPECIES; ECTOTHERMY; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FECUNDITY; HERB; HOST PLANT; HOST QUALITY; HOST USE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MOTH; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; REACTION NORM; REARING; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TOBACCO; TRADE-OFF; WILD POPULATION;

LEPIDOPTERA; MANDUCA; MANDUCA SEXTA; NICOTIANA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; PROBOSCIDEA LOUISIANICA;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; FERTILITY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; LEPIDOPTERA; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; TOBACCO;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; FERTILITY; MANDUCA; TEMPERATURE; TOBACCO;

EID: 77449124466     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/648602     Document Type: Article

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