Understanding how diet affects reproduction and survival is a central aim in evolutionary
biology. Although this relationship is likely to differ between the sexes, we lack data relating …

When the likelihood of reproducing successfully is low, any prior investment in developing
oocytes may be wasted. One means of recouping this investment is oosorption–where ova …

Animals must acquire an ideal amount and balance of macronutrients to optimize their
performance, health and fitness. The nutritional landscape provides an integrative …

Increasing yield is a primary goal of mass insect rearing for food and feed, and diet impacts
insect life-history traits that affect yield, such as survival, development time and body size …

Nutrition is one of the underlying factors necessary for the expression of life-histories and
fitness across the tree of life. In recent decades, the geometric framework (GF) has become a …

Global optimization of expensive, noisy black‐box functions is a problem of significant
interest and is used extensively in applications such as hyperparameter optimization (HPO) …

The yellow mealworm, Tenebrio molitor L.(Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae), is one of the few
edible insects commercially produced around the globe as alternative protein sources for …

Animals regulate their food intake to maximize the expression of fitness traits but are forced
to trade off the optimal expression of some fitness traits because of differences in the nutrient …

Diet specialists and generalists face a common challenge: they must regulate the intake and
balance of nutrients to achieve a target diet for optimum nutrition. When optimum nutrition is …

In industrial research, experiments are designed to determine the optimal factor levels of the
process parameters. Typically, experimental data are used to fit empirical models (for …