Rapid Laboratory Evolution of Adult Life-History Traits in Drosophila melanogaster in Response to Temperature

Evolution ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 538 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Partridge ◽  
Brian Barrie ◽  
Nicholas H. Barton ◽  
Kevin Fowler ◽  
Vernon French
Keyword(s):  
Drosophila Melanogaster ◽  
Life History ◽  
Life History Traits ◽  
Adult Life ◽  
Laboratory Evolution ◽  
Response To Temperature ◽  
Rapid Laboratory

scholarly journals RAPID LABORATORY EVOLUTION OF ADULT LIFE-HISTORY TRAITS IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER IN RESPONSE TO TEMPERATURE

Evolution ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 538-544 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Partridge ◽  
Brian Barrie ◽  
Nicholas H. Barton ◽  
Kevin Fowler ◽  
Vernon French
Keyword(s):  
Drosophila Melanogaster ◽  
Life History ◽  
Life History Traits ◽  
Adult Life ◽  
Laboratory Evolution ◽  
Response To Temperature ◽  
Rapid Laboratory

GEOGRAPHIC VARIATION IN DIAPAUSE INCIDENCE, LIFE-HISTORY TRAITS, AND CLIMATIC ADAPTATION IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER

Evolution ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 59 (8) ◽  
pp. 1721 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul S. Schmidt ◽  
Luciano Matzkin ◽  
Michael Ippolito ◽  
Walter F. Eanes
Keyword(s):  
Drosophila Melanogaster ◽  
Life History ◽  
Geographic Variation ◽  
Life History Traits ◽  
Climatic Adaptation ◽  
Diapause Incidence

scholarly journals Do females preferentially associate with males given a better start in life?

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 362-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew T. Kahn ◽  
Julianne D. Livingston ◽  
Michael D. Jennions
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Body Size ◽  
Food Intake ◽  
Compensatory Growth ◽  
Life History Traits ◽  
Adult Life ◽  
Gambusia Holbrooki ◽  
Developmental History ◽  
Restricted Diet ◽  
Adult Body

A poor start in life owing to a restricted diet can have readily detectable detrimental consequences for many adult life-history traits. However, some costs such as smaller adult body size are potentially eliminated when individuals modify their development. For example, male mosquitofish ( Gambusia holbrooki ) that have reduced early food intake undergo compensatory growth and delay maturation so that they eventually mature at the same size as males that develop normally. But do subtle effects of a poor start persist? Specifically, does a male's developmental history affect his subsequent attractiveness to females? Females prefer to associate with larger males but, controlling for body length, we show that females spent less time in association with males that underwent compensatory growth than with males that developed normally.

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