Egg size, embryonic development time and ovoviviparity in Drosophila species

TA Markow, S Beall, LM Matzkin - Journal of evolutionary …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
… that differences in egg size are related to differences in embryonic development time. We
discovered, in addition to the independence of egg size and development time, that, in two …

Effects of evolution on egg development time

A Hirst, A López-Urrutia - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2006 - int-res.com
eggs of similar size. We calculated the geometric mean temperature-corrected development
time and egg size for … protected eggs take ~3.3 times longer to hatch than unprotected eggs, …

Optimal egg size in marine invertebrates: theory and phylogenetic analysis of the critical relationship between egg size and development time in echinoids

DR Levitan - The American Naturalist, 2000 - journals.uchicago.edu
egg size and development time. Here, I present a simple model in which development time
is inversely proportional to egg size. … rather than extreme egg size. Modeled variations in …

Effects of egg size on the development time of non-feeding larvae

DJ Marshall, TF Bolton - The Biological Bulletin, 2007 - journals.uchicago.edu
… the effects of egg size variation on the development time of … We examined how egg size
affected time until metamorphic … Development time was similarly dependent on offspring size

Egg size, larval development, and juvenile size in benthic marine invertebrates

RR Strathmann - The American Naturalist, 1977 - journals.uchicago.edu
… that the egg-size-development-time relationships are often … relationships between egg size
and development time within … development (particularly delay in settlement), and (d) size at …

The relationship of egg size and incubation temperature to embryonic development time in univoltine and multivoltine aquatic insects

JF Gillooly, SI Dodson - Freshwater Biology, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
… the relationship of egg size to embryonic development time for … the relationship of embryonic
development time to egg size for a … As egg development is often thought to be delayed in …

Hatching time in spherical, pelagic, marine fish eggs in response to temperature and egg size

D Pauly, RSV Pullin - Environmental biology of fishes, 1988 - Springer
… to the effects of temperature and egg size (diameter) on the development time to hatching
of … , marine eggs. It is apparent that large eggs develop more slowly than small eggs, other …

Evolution of egg size and number

S Einum, MT Kinnison, AP Hendry - Evolution illuminated: salmon …, 2004 - books.google.com
… however, explain the variation in a population at a given time. Second, … egg size), but that
increasing egg size increased egg or larval mortality. This negative effect of increased egg size

Effects of egg size reductions on development time and juvenile size in three species of echinoid echinoderms: implications for life history theory

JD Allen - Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 2012 - Elsevier
… on development time in species with small eggs. As predicted, development time does not
change linearly with egg size but instead increases exponentially as egg size is reduced. The …

Time to hatch and larval size in relation to temperature and egg size in Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua)

P Pepin, DC Orr, JT Anderson - Canadian Journal of Fisheries …, 1997 - cdnsciencepub.com
… that increased egg size is associated with a longer time until endogenous resources are
completely utilized, our results indicate that the overall effect of individual egg size was weak. …