Developmental consequences of an evolutionary change in egg size: an experimental test

B Sinervo, LR McEdward - Evolution, 1988 - Wiley Online Library
… large interspecific difference in egg size, we experimentally reduced egg size by isolating …
in egg size, then experimental reduction of the size of S. droebachiensis eggs should yield an …

Life‐History Consequences of Egg Size in Drosophila Melanogaster

RBR Azevedo, L Partridge… - The American …, 1997 - journals.uchicago.edu
… Effect of female size, egg size, and water temperature on developmental biology of chum
salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) from the Nitinat River, British Columbia. Canadian Journal of …

FITNESS CONSEQUENCES OF VARIATION IN EGG SIZE AND FOOD ABUNDANCE IN BROOK TROUT SALVELINUS FONTINALIS

JA Hutchings - Evolution, 1991 - academic.oup.com
… and developmental rates and their associations with egg size. … probabilities as a function of
egg size. Slope homogeneity of … developmental time to hatching were uncorrelated with egg

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

DJ Marshall, TF Bolton - The Biological Bulletin, 2007 - journals.uchicago.edu
… Regardless of the mechanism responsible for the effect of egg size on developmental times,
… or bet-hedging trait (24) or merely an inevitable consequence of egg production (see 25). …

Evolution of egg size in free-spawners: consequences of the fertilization-fecundity trade-off

RD Podolsky, RR Strathmann - The American Naturalist, 1996 - journals.uchicago.edu
egg size. He derives parameters for three species of the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus-including
egg size, egg fertilizability, … Developmental consequences of an evolutionary change in …

Effects of egg size reduction and larval feeding on juvenile quality for a species with facultative-feeding development

JD Allen, C Zakas, RD Podolsky - Journal of Experimental Marine Biology …, 2006 - Elsevier
developmental effects of both maternal investment and larval feeding. In particular, experimental
manipulations of egg size … of egg size should therefore consider the consequences of …

Life-history consequences of investment in free-spawned eggs and their accessory coats

RD Podolsky - The American Naturalist, 2004 - journals.uchicago.edu
… reproductive allocation and the evolution of egg size. I develop an optimization model that
… a developmental end point (metamorph size) that is independent of the starting point (ovum …

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
eggs, increases in egg size reduce developmental periods while for species with large eggs,
increases in egg size increase juvenile size (… have other deleterious consequences for the …

Why does egg size increase with maternal size? Effects of egg size and egg density on offspring phenotypes in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)

N Rollinson, JA Hutchings - Evolutionary Ecology …, 2010 - evolutionary-ecology.com
… for mothers to produce relatively large eggs if the consequences include relatively late
emergence … , the relative importance of size at emergence and developmental stage on predator …

Insect egg size and shape evolve with ecology but not developmental rate

SH Church, S Donoughe, BAS De Medeiros… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
… the diversity in egg shapes. We show that egg size is not correlated with developmental rate
and that… about the causes and consequences of size evolution in a phylogenetic framework. …