Control of Size and Fecundity in Pieris rapae: Towards a Theory of Butterfly Life Cycles

Smith, Robert H.; Sibly, Richard M.; Møller, H.

doi:10.2307/4819

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“…We agree with Leather (1988) in pointing out that the relationships between insect size and reproductive potential and fecundity are not simple. The complex relationship between size and fecundity as fitness characters is also evident from studies on life cycles and natural selection (Gilbert 1984, Smith et al 1987). Our study shows that the things are even more complicated than believed: Even if insect size were of positively correlated with its reproductive potential or even actual total fecundity, this may be later masked by factors like adult size-dependent, differential egg viability.…”

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Fecundity and egg viability in relation to female body size in Neodiprion sertifer (Hymenoptera: Diprionidae)

Heliövaara¹,

Väisänen

Varama³

1990

Ecography

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Relationships between female size and fecundity, egg viability and embryonal development were studied in Neoriprion sertifer. Sawfly females, reared from the 1st instar larvae on Scots pine needles heavily affected by industrial pollutants or on relatively unpolluted needles, were induced to lay eggs parthenogenetically in the field in Finland. Females reared on polluted needles were smaller and oviposited an average of 68.8 eggs, and those reared on unpolluted needles 79.4 eggs per female. However, the higher egg viability in the former group masked the effect of reduced female size. This compensation was primarily related to the size of the females, larger individuals producing relatively fewer viable eggs in both groups.

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Fecundity and egg viability in relation to female body size in Neodiprion sertifer (Hymenoptera: Diprionidae)

Heliövaara¹,

Väisänen

Varama³

1990

Ecography

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“…However, a consequence of having a longer development time at low frequency of disturbance is an increased risk of mortality from a longer exposure to potential competition or predation. Spedes may have evolved to compensate for this low theoretical rate of survivorship by a higher individual fecundity (variable 2), and this has already been observed in similar situations (Smith, Sibly & Mellor, 1987). Furthermore, observed trends for some morphological or behavioural traits in the Insecta are opposite those predicted by Townsend & Hildrew (1994), e.g.…”

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Theoretical habitat templets, species traits, and species richness: aquatic insects in the Upper Rhône River and its floodplain

Usseglio‐Polatera

1994

Freshwater Biology

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1. For five orders of Insecta (Plecoptera, Ephemeroptera, Odonata, Trichoptera, and Coleoptera) in two sites of the Upper Rhone River (France), the following are examined: (i) relationships among nineteen spedes traits; (ii) habitat utilization of species; (iii) the relationship between spedes traits and habitat utilization; and (iv) trends of spedes traits and spedes richness in a templet of spatial-temporal habitat variability. 2. The species traits having the highest correlations correspond to reproduction, life cycle, nutritional, and morphological features. Spedes trait characteristics of Coleoptera are distinctly contrasted with those of Plecoptera and Ephemeroptera; Odonata and Trichoptera are intermediate to these orders. 3. The distribution of spedes in fourteen habitat types of the Upper Rhone River floodplain demonstrates a transverse gradient from the main channel to the oxbow lakes and the temporary water habitats, and a vertical gradient from interstitial to superfidai habitats. 4. Despite a significant relationship between spedes traits and habitat utilization, superposition between spedes traits and habitat utilization is limited. At the order level, spedes form usually one (Ephemeroptera, Trichoptera, Odonata) or several (Coleoptera) groups of relatively homogeneous spedes traits; however, the spedes of each of these groups utilize rather different habitat types. 5. Only for some life history traits, e.g. the minimum age of reproduction or the number of reproductive cycles per year, do the trends observed in the framework of spatialtemporal variability of habitat types agree with the predictions from the river habitat templet. This mismatch mainly results from the unique phylogenetic history of the Coleoptera compared with that of the other four orders. 6. Spedes richness peaks at an intermediate level of temporal variability; however, it does not gradually increase with increasing spatial variability, nor increase from low to intermediate temporal variability.

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“…Rose 1982;Partridge 1983). While females could not benefit from choosing males on the basis of single fitness components under stable conditions, variance in net fitness may be generated by environmental changes (see Smith et al 1987) allowing females the potential to benefit from preferential mating during subsequent movement of the population to new equilibria.…”

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Heritability of a male character chosen by females of the field cricket,Gryllus bimaculatus

Simmons

1987

Behav Ecol Sociobiol

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Control of Size and Fecundity in Pieris rapae: Towards a Theory of Butterfly Life Cycles

Cited by 25 publications

References 12 publications

Fecundity and egg viability in relation to female body size in Neodiprion sertifer (Hymenoptera: Diprionidae)

Fecundity and egg viability in relation to female body size in Neodiprion sertifer (Hymenoptera: Diprionidae)

Theoretical habitat templets, species traits, and species richness: aquatic insects in the Upper Rhône River and its floodplain

Heritability of a male character chosen by females of the field cricket,Gryllus bimaculatus

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