Conflicting processes in the evolution of body size and development time

HF Nijhout, DA Roff… - … Transactions of the …, 2010 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… that regulate body size and development time as a means of … of the processes that regulate
these important life-history traits. … underlying processes by which body size and development

The evolution of body size: what keeps organisms small?

WU Blanckenhorn - The quarterly review of biology, 2000 - journals.uchicago.edu
… selection for large body size is eventually counterbalanced by opposing selective forces. …
evidence for selection and other processes that limit body size in natural populations lags far …

Inconsistent patterns of body size evolution in co‐occurring island reptiles

Y Itescu, R Schwarz, CM Donihue… - Global Ecology and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
… of general body size evolutionary trajectories on islands. We conclude that overarching
generalizations oversimplify patterns and processes of reptile body size evolution on islands. …

[PDF][PDF] Size, temperature, and fitness: three rules

J Kingsolver, R Huey - Evolutionary Ecology Research, 2008 - cdr.lib.unc.edu
… Hotter is smaller: Smaller adult body sizes typically result from development at higher …
conflicting empirical patterns about temperature, size, and fitness of ectotherms? Methods: We …

Size, scaling, and the evolution of complex life cycles

EE Werner - Size-structured populations: ecology and evolution, 1988 - Springer
… in evolutionary change. As Istock (1984) put it, every inference we make about the evolutionary
process … However, there is clearly a conflicting tension or advantage to achieve a much …

Lifetime selection on adult body size and components of body size in a waterstrider: opposing selection and maintenance of sexual size dimorphism

RF Preziosi, DJ Fairbairn - Evolution, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
… Details of our statistical methods and discussion of several statistical considerations of
the methods we have used can be found in (Fairbairn and Preziosi 1994, 1996; Preziosi and …

Growing apart: an ontogenetic perspective on the evolution of sexual size dimorphism

AV Badyaev - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2002 - cell.com
… of body size (eg on growth rate and duration) can produce rapid changes in adult SSD. They
emphasized that SSD evolutionprocesses involved in the evolution of sex specificity during …

The evolution of harm—effect of sexual conflicts and population size

L Gay, DJ Hosken, P Eady, R Vasudev, T Tregenza - Evolution, 2011 - academic.oup.com
… attempt at reversing experimental evolution under sexual conflicts. Reintroducing sexual …
in the evolution of more harmful males, and female resistance to harm also evolved. Damage …

Body size mediated coexistence of consumers competing for resources in space

A Basset, DL Angelis - Oikos, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Body size is a major phenotypic trait of individuals that … resource patches scaled with individual
body size. The aim was to … occurred in a range of body size ratios between 2 and 10. …

Body size and sexual size dimorphism in marine iguanas fluctuate as a result of opposing natural and sexual selection: an island comparison

M Wikelski, F Trillmich - Evolution, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
evolutionary processes shaping body size in marine iguanas, we analyzed the selection
differentials on body size … Factors that usually confound any evolutionary analysis of body sizes-…