Seasonality maintains alternative life-history phenotypes

Evolution

Volumn 67, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 3145-3160

  Kivelä, Sami M ^a,b   Välimäki, Panu ^a   Gotthard, Karl ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Alternative developmental pathways; Cline; Model; Mortality risk; Polyphenism; Voltinism

Indexed keywords

CLINE; FITNESS; GENOTYPE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GROWTH RATE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MORTALITY RISK; PHENOTYPE; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; SEASONALITY; VOLTINISM;

HEXAPODA;

ALTERNATIVE DEVELOPMENTAL PATHWAYS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INSECT; MODEL; MORTALITY; PHENOTYPE; POLYPHENISM; REPRODUCTION; SEASON; VOLTINISM;

ALTERNATIVE DEVELOPMENTAL PATHWAYS; CLINE; MODEL; MORTALITY RISK; POLYPHENISM; VOLTINISM;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ENVIRONMENT; INSECTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHENOTYPE; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS;

EID: 84886290599     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/evo.12181     Document Type: Article

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