… Our general goal was to understand the causes of body size evolution in this ancient
insect order. Our combined results suggest consistent directional selection (for these fitness …

… In cooperatively breeding vertebrates and primitively eusocial insects, helpers are capable
… We compared time spent on nest by ex-helpers before and after manipulation in order to …

… to test for fitness benefits of offspring diversification. Pygmy grasshoppers are small (up to
15 mm body length, 0.07 g on average), diurnal, grounddwelling insects that mostly inhabit …

… of larval mortality alone could balance the potential fitness benefits of a few extra days of
near‐… size, we calculated total fitness for females as where F is fitness; 0.5 represents genetic …

… To assess the effect of age at mating on overall female fitness… with nonsignificant higher-order
interactions removed. All … overall suggest that the benefits of sexual reproduction and …

… and Ellsworth 2009), and other insect symbionts provide their hosts with increased heat …
do not support the hypothesis that Rickettsia fitness benefits in whiteflies are due to greater …

… articles spanning five holometabolous insect orders (Fig. 2). … of fecundity (and therefore
fitness) that accompanies the avoidance … Given both potential costs and benefits of pupation, we …

… previous findings that larvae cooperated to dig in processed food (Dombrovski et al., 2017;
Kim et al., 2017). In order … behavior is conserved in saprophagous insect larvae. To save time …

… in order to calculate the fitness of females of different sizes. … In the cage a number of other
insect species were present: … It might simply be an allometric effect, with no costs or benefits …

… order to ensure higher quality of field-released insects. Thus, we investigated whether rearing
fluctuating thermal condition would affect the fitness … is commonly used in insect facilities. …