Evolutionary theories of aging are linked to life-history theory in that age-specific schedules
of reproduction and survival determine the trajectory of age-specific mutation/selection …

Stressful conditions during development may have lasting consequences for an animal's
lifetime fitness. We investigated the degree to which parental provisioning and nest …

Interest in phenotypic flexibility has increased dramatically over the last decade, but
flexibility during reproduction has received relatively little attention from avian scientists …

When a female bird begins incubation before clutch completion, the nestlings hatch
sequentially, and a size hierarchy forms within the brood. This size hierarchy may be …

Although temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD) has been a 'hot topic'for well over
30 years, the discovery of TSD in viviparous taxa is recent. Viviparity and TSD was regarded …

Offspring phenotype is the product of genes transferred from parents and the environment
experienced by the offspring. In addition, parents affect the environment of their offspring for …

The snowshoe hare cycle has been fundamental to the development of ecological theory for
more than half a century. Though these cycles have been intensively studied for over 70 …