Developmental plasticity describes situations where a specific input during an individual's
development produces a lasting alteration in phenotype. Some instances of developmental …

Individual differences in the energy cost of self-maintenance (resting metabolic rate, RMR)
are substantial and the focus of an emerging research area. These differences may …

Phenotypic development is the result of a complex interplay involving the organism's own
genetic make-up and the environment it experiences during development. The latter …

Developmental stressors often have long-term fitness consequences, but linking offspring
traits to fitness prospects has remained a challenge. Telomere length predicts mortality in …

Mate choice studies routinely assume female preferences for indicators of high quality in
males but rarely consider developmental causes of within-population variation in mating …

Adverse experiences in early life can exert powerful delayed effects on adult survival and
health. Telomere attrition is a potentially important mechanism in such effects. One source of …

Physiological costs of compensatory growth are poorly understood, yet may be the key
components in explaining why growth rates are typically submaximal. Here we tested the …

Resting metabolic rate (RMR) is responsible for up to 50% of total energy expenditure, and
so should be under strong selection pressure, yet it shows extensive intraspecific variation …

There is growing international interest in how environmental conditions experienced during
development can shape adult phenotypes and the extent to which such induced changes …

Although variation in effect sizes and predicted values among studies of similar phenomena
is inevitable, such variation far exceeds what might be produced by sampling error alone …