The effects of biotic and abiotic factors on insect life histories have been extensively studied.
However, the impact of some crucial aspects, such as larval density (crowding) and the …

Diet quality and the presence and abundance of conspecifics feeding on the same food
resource are critical factors that affect functional traits of many animal species and influence …

Barometric pressure is an environmental factor involved in the modulation of a variety of
activities in insects. Generally, a drop in barometric pressure precedes the arrival of weather …

Environmental factors can have profound effects on the strength and direction of selection
and recent studies suggest that such environment‐dependent selection can be sex‐specific …

Habitat quality early in life determines individual fitness, with possible long-term evolutionary
effects on groups and populations. In holometabolous insects, larval ecology plays a major …

Abstract Model organisms such as Drosophila melanogaster have been key tools for
advancing our fundamental and applied knowledge in biological and biomedical sciences …

Environmental variability can significantly impact individual survival and reproduction.
Meanwhile, high population densities can lead to resource scarcity and increased exposure …

While climate warming is widely predicted to reduce body size of ectotherms, evidence for
this trend is mixed. Body size depends not only on temperature but also on other factors …

Intraspecific competition drives ecological specialization, and niche expansion. In
holometabolous insects, larval intraspecific competition (" crowding") has lasting fitness …

In many species, the order in which males mate with a female explains much of the variation
in paternity arising from post‐copulatory sexual selection. Research in Drosophila suggests …