scholarly article | Q13442814 |
P356 | DOI | 10.1086/282929 |
P2093 | author name string | Stephen D. Fretwell | |
Christopher C. Smith | |||
P433 | issue | 962 | |
P304 | page(s) | 499-506 | |
P577 | publication date | 1974-07-01 | |
P1433 | published in | The American Naturalist | Q3085258 |
P1476 | title | The Optimal Balance between Size and Number of Offspring | |
P478 | volume | 108 |
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Q41360673 | PROXIMATE AND ULTIMATE CONTROLS ON LIFE-HISTORY VARIATION: THE EVOLUTION OF LITTER SIZE IN WHITE-FOOTED MICE (PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS). |
Q33372696 | Parallel life history evolution in mouthbrooding cichlids from the African Great Lakes |
Q44554576 | Parental crowding influences life-history traits in Locusta migratoria females |
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Q28601790 | Parents face quantity-quality trade-offs between reproduction and investment in offspring in Iceland |
Q56688110 | Paternal Effects on Offspring Fitness Reflect Father’s Social Environment |
Q56192369 | Paternal Investment and the Positive Effects of Fathers among the Matrilineal Mosuo of Southwest China |
Q53131361 | Paternal care and litter size coevolution in mammals. |
Q46472157 | Patterns of age-related change in reproductive effort differ in the pre-natal and post-natal periods in a long-lived mammal |
Q34103591 | Patterns of interspecific variation in the heart rates of embryonic reptiles |
Q51192817 | Patterns of seed mass variation and their effects on seedling traits inAlliaria petiolata (Brassicaceae). |
Q47368024 | Persistent directional selection on body size and a resolution to the paradox of stasis |
Q49242861 | Phenotypic memory in Bacillus subtilis links dormancy entry and exit by a spore quantity-quality tradeoff |
Q34182532 | Phenotypic plasticity influences the size, shape and dynamics of the geographic distribution of an invasive plant |
Q56490752 | Phenotypic plasticity of reproductive traits in response to food availability in invasive and native species of nematode |
Q38199843 | Phenotypic variation and selective mortality as major drivers of recruitment variability in fishes |
Q38443357 | Plastic response to a proxy cue of predation risk when direct cues are unreliable |
Q99962008 | Positive and negative effects of phoretic mites on the reproductive output of an invasive bark beetle |
Q46460175 | Post-hatching parental care masks the effects of egg size on offspring fitness: a removal experiment on burying beetles. |
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Q36652258 | Predator-induced renesting and reproductive effort in indigo buntings: more work for less pay? |
Q57134743 | Predators modify the temperature dependence of life-history trade-offs |
Q30559362 | Predicting dispersal distance in mammals: a trait-based approach. |
Q51434690 | Predicting trait values and measuring selection in complex life histories: reproductive allocation decisions in Soay sheep. |
Q41035320 | Propagule size and parental care: The “safe harbor” hypothesis |
Q57039287 | Propagule size effects across multiple life-history stages in a marine invertebrate |
Q30601877 | Proximate weather patterns and spring green-up phenology effect Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber) body mass and reproductive success: the implications of climate change and topography |
Q51534649 | Quantifying the life-history response to increased male exposure in female Drosophila melanogaster. |
Q36284444 | Quantitative genetics of costly neonatal sexual size dimorphism in squirrel monkeys (Saimiri boliviensis). |
Q59117577 | Queen–worker caste ratio depends on colony size in the pharaoh ant (Monomorium pharaonis) |
Q28651195 | Reassessing breeding investment in birds: class-wide analysis of clutch volume reveals a single outlying family |
Q45805531 | Recurrent violations of invariant rules for offspring size: evidence from turtles and the implications for small clutch size models |
Q49150276 | Relationship between fluctuating asymmetry and fitness within and between stressed and unstressed populations of the wolf spider Pirata piraticus |
Q45912244 | Relationships between intra-specific variation in seed size and recruitment in four species in two contrasting habitats. |
Q58242398 | Relationships of maternal body size and morphology with egg and clutch size in the diamondback terrapin,Malaclemys terrapin(Testudines: Emydidae) |
Q44245947 | Relative effects of maternal and juvenile food availability for a marine snail. |
Q38922776 | Repeatability and heritability of reproductive traits in free-ranging snakes. |
Q35816158 | Reproduction in Risky Environments: The Role of Invasive Egg Predators in Ladybird Laying Strategies |
Q60568668 | Reproductive Strategies |
Q46466295 | Reproductive biology and feeding habits of the prickly dogfish Oxynotus bruniensis |
Q100944051 | Reproductive compensation in female Palaemonetes argentinus (Decapoda: Natantia) due to Microphallus szidati (Trematoda) infection |
Q56935496 | Reproductive ecology of a tropical natricine snake, Tropidonophis mairii (Colubridae) |
Q36857662 | Reproductive flexibility: genetic variation, genetic costs and long-term evolution in a collembola |
Q38568961 | Reproductive mode and the shifting arenas of evolutionary conflict |
Q47804987 | Reproductive senescence: new perspectives in the wild |
Q38430428 | Residual yolk energetics and postnatal shell growth in Smooth Softshell Turtles, Apalone mutica |
Q47211324 | SEED SIZE VARIABILITY: A CONSEQUENCE OF VARIABLE GENETIC QUALITY AMONG OFFSPRING? |
Q47291106 | SEX RATIO, BODY SIZE AND SEASONALITY IN A SOLITARY BEE, OSMIA LIGNARIA PROPINQUA CRESSON (HYMENOPTERA: MEGACHILIDAE). |
Q38753163 | SEXUAL SELECTION ON BODY SIZE AND SHAPE IN THE WESTERN HARVESTER ANT, POGONOMYRMEX OCCIDENTALIS CRESSON. |
Q38753213 | SEXUAL SIZE DIMORPHISM AND SELECTION IN THE WILD IN THE WATERSTRIDER AQUARIUS REMIGIS: LIFETIME FECUNDITY SELECTION ON FEMALE TOTAL LENGTH AND ITS COMPONENTS. |
Q58073840 | STAGES AND SPATIAL SCALES OF RECRUITMENT LIMITATION IN SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN FORESTS |
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Q58396421 | Seed addition experiments are more likely to increase recruitment in larger-seeded species |
Q90210275 | Seed mass diversity along resource gradients: the role of allometric growth rate and size-asymmetric competition |
Q57140738 | Seed mass, seedling size and neotropical tree seedling establishment |
Q56501693 | Seed number and environmental conditions do not explain seed size variability for the invasive herb Lupinus polyphyllus |
Q57239224 | Seed size and survival in the soil in arid Australia |
Q24674147 | Seed size variability: from carob to carats |
Q35390813 | Seed weight and germination behavior of the submerged plant Potamogeton pectinatus in the arid zone of northwest China |
Q40018352 | Selection and constraints on offspring size-number trade-offs in sand lizards (Lacerta agilis). |
Q38441697 | Selection for increased allocation to offspring number under environmental unpredictability |
Q47333397 | Selection on body size and sexual size dimorphism differs between host species in a seed-feeding beetle |
Q36255132 | Selection on parental performance opposes selection for larger body mass in a wild population of blue tits |
Q51890933 | Selective embryo abortion in a perennial tree-legume: a case for maternal advantage of reduced seed number per fruit. |
Q59093658 | Selfish genes, evolutionary games and the adaptiveness of behaviour |
Q28601909 | Selfish mothers indeed! Resource-dependent conflict over extended parental care in free-ranging dogs |
Q47409414 | Separating parental environment from seed size effects on next generation growth and development in Arabidopsis |
Q51538783 | Sex allocation in haplodiploids is mediated by egg size: evidence in the spider mite Tetranychus urticae Koch. |
Q116337722 | Sexual Dimorphism and Female Reproduction in the Many-Lined Sun Skink (Mabuya multifasciata) from China |
Q59070071 | Sexual conflict reduces offspring fitness in zebra finches |
Q35972281 | Sexual shape dimorphism accelerated by male-male competition, but not prevented by sex-indiscriminate parental care in dung beetles (Scarabaeidae). |
Q48096731 | Should mothers provision their offspring equally? A manipulative field test |
Q35944644 | Sibling Competition & Growth Tradeoffs. Biological vs. Statistical Significance |
Q46044758 | Size-fecundity relationships, growth trajectories, and the temperature-size rule for ectotherms |
Q47435476 | Size-number trade-off and optimal offspring size for offspring produced sequentially using a fixed amount of reserves |
Q38933238 | Social bet-hedging in vampire bats |
Q47424049 | Social polyandry, parental investment, sexual selection, and evolution of reduced female gamete size |
Q68660510 | Some evolutionary properties of parental investment per offspring in a heterogeneous environment |
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Q39656084 | Spatial variation in egg size and egg number reflects trade-offs and bet-hedging in a freshwater fish. |
Q46694467 | Species-abundance--seed-size patterns within a plant community affected by grazing disturbance |
Q34159144 | Sperm limitation in the sea. |
Q56669872 | Squeezing out the last egg-annual fish increase reproductive efforts in response to a predation threat |
Q40990597 | State-dependent life histories |
Q35915053 | Strategies of offspring investment and dispersal in a spatially structured environment: a theoretical study using ants |
Q36904961 | Strong natural selection during plant restoration favors an unexpected suite of plant traits |
Q34199295 | Support for maternal manipulation of developmental nutrition in a facultatively eusocial bee, Megalopta genalis (Halictidae) |
Q51439773 | Survival costs of reproduction predict age-dependent variation in maternal investment. |
Q47178932 | Synergistic effects of parental and embryonic exposure to predation risk on prey offspring size at emergence |
Q44632047 | THE EVOLUTION OF MATERNAL INVESTMENT IN LIZARDS: AN EXPERIMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF EGG SIZE AND ITS EFFECTS ON OFFSPRING PERFORMANCE. |
Q38753159 | THE EVOLUTIONARY GENETICS OF AN ADAPTIVE MATERNAL EFFECT: EGG SIZE PLASTICITY IN A SEED BEETLE. |
Q36386725 | THE IMPLICATIONS OF OVUM SIZE VARIABILITY FOR OFFSPRING FITNESS AND CLUTCH SIZE WITHIN SEVERAL POPULATIONS OF SALAMANDERS (AMBYSTOMA). |
Q38753232 | TIMING OF PARTURITION AS A MATERNAL CARE TACTIC IN AN ALPINE LIZARD SPECIES. |
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Q89865949 | Task allocation in a cooperative society: specialized castes or age-dependent switching among ant workers |
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Q90811972 | Testing the competition-colonization trade-off and its correlations with functional trait variations among subtropical tree species |
Q58556283 | Testing the effects of genetic crossing distance on embryo survival within a metapopulation of brown trout (Salmo trutta) |
Q39318370 | The Effect of Orobanche crenata Infection Severity in Faba Bean, Field Pea, and Grass Pea Productivity. |
Q28596525 | The Evolution of Diapsid Reproductive Strategy with Inferences about Extinct Taxa |
Q58775977 | The Importance of Egg Size and Social Effects for Behaviour of Arctic Charr Juveniles |
Q28602334 | The Influence of Diet Composition on Fitness of the Blue Crab, Callinectes sapidus |
Q36781129 | The adaptive significance of population differentiation in offspring size of the least killifish, Heterandria formosa |
Q47300704 | The causes and consequences of variation in offspring size: a case study using Daphnia |
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Q33808837 | The cost of sex: quantifying energetic investment in gamete production by males and females |
Q46413698 | The demographic transition: are we any closer to an evolutionary explanation? |
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Q45231971 | The effect of parity on morphological evolution among phrynosomatid lizards |
Q30765768 | The effect of temperature on reproduction in the summer and winter annual Arabidopsis thaliana ecotypes Bur and Cvi |
Q33633899 | The evolution of different maternal investment strategies in two closely related desert vertebrates |
Q58929679 | The evolution of expenditure on testes |
Q37904445 | The evolution of human parental care and recruitment of juvenile help |
Q47352327 | The evolution of offspring size and number: a test of the Smith-Fretwell model in three species of crickets |
Q51609156 | The evolution of parental care in stochastic environments. |
Q45934304 | The evolution of trade-offs: geographic variation in call duration and flight ability in the sand cricket, Gryllus firmus. |
Q36970986 | The evolutionary ecology of offspring size in marine invertebrates. |
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Q38402947 | The mean and variance of climate change in the oceans: hidden evolutionary potential under stochastic environmental variability in marine sticklebacks. |
Q57431605 | The offspring size/fecundity trade-off and female fitness in the Atlantic molly (Poecilia mexicana, Poeciliidae) |
Q33361326 | The positive correlation between maternal size and offspring size: fitting pieces of a life-history puzzle |
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Q58298933 | The problem of resource accrual and reproduction in modern human populations remains an unsolved evolutionary puzzle |
Q35061160 | The rate-size trade-off structures intraspecific variation in Daphnia ambigua life history parameters |
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Q47372698 | The relationship between female body size and egg size in pipefishes |
Q51615398 | The relationship between maternal phenotype and offspring quality: do older mothers really produce the best offspring? |
Q46104366 | The relationship between offspring size and fitness: integrating theory and empiricism. |
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Q45323559 | The relationship between phenotypic variation among offspring and mother body mass in wild boar: evidence of coin-flipping? |
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Q88867727 | Transgenerational effects of maternal sexual interactions in seed beetles |
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Q39572276 | Tree-to-tree variation in seed size and its consequences for seed dispersal versus predation by rodents |
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Q47444428 | VARIATION IN POLLEN SIZE, FERTILIZATION ABILITY, AND POSTFERTILIZATION SIRING ABILITY IN ERYTHRONIUM GRANDIFLORUM. |
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Q99962843 | Viviparity and the reproductive ecology of clinid fishes (Clinidae) from temperate Australian waters |
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