▪ Abstract Host plant quality is a key determinant of the fecundity of herbivorous insects.
Components of host plant quality (such as carbon, nitrogen, and defensive metabolites) …

▪ Abstract Most models of optimal progeny size assume that there is a trade-off between
progeny size and number, and that progeny fitness increases with increasing investment per …

" Dynamic Energy Budget (DEB) theory is a formal theory for the uptake and use of
substrates (food, nutrients and light) by organisms and their use for maintenance, growth …

SYNOPSIS. Maternal effects comprise a class of phenotypic effects that parents have on
phenotypes of their offspring that are unrelated to the offspring's own genotype. Although …

SYNOPSIS. Propagule size is perhaps the most widely recognized and studied maternal
effect in ecology, yet its evolution is not well-understood. The large body of extant optimality …

▪ Abstract In evolutionary ecology, risk-spreading (ie bet-hedging) is the idea that
unpredictably variable environments favor genotypes with lower variance in fitness at the …

▪ Abstract Inherited environmental effects are those components of the phenotype that are
derived from either parent, apart from nuclear genes. Inherited environmental effects arise …

The dazzling variation in plant chemistry is a primary mediator of trophic interactions,
including herbivory, predation, parasitism, and disease. At the same time, such interactions …

Maternal age influences offspring quality of many species of insects. This observed maternal
age influence on offspring performance may be mediated through maternal age effects on …

The diversity of life on Earth raises the question of whether it is possible to have a single
theoretical description of the quantitative aspects of the organization of metabolism for all …