Sexual size dimorphism within species increases with body size in insects

By T. Teder, T. Tammaru. 2005

327 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Insect Science

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. T. Esperk
2. T. Teder
3. Steven L. Chown
4. Kevin J. Gaston
5. S. Nylin
6. M. Serrano-Meneses
7. T. Tammaru
8. A. Córdoba‐Aguilar

In Genetics

1. Steven L. Chown
2. T. Esperk
3. Kevin J. Gaston
4. T. Teder
5. S. Nylin
6. M. Serrano-Meneses
7. T. Tammaru
8. A. Córdoba‐Aguilar

In Insect Science

1. T. Esperk
2. T. Teder
3. S. Nylin
4. Kevin J. Gaston
5. Steven L. Chown
6. T. Tammaru
7. A. Córdoba‐Aguilar

Citations in the corpus

• Sexual size dimorphism in the American rubyspot: male body size predicts male competition and mating success (2007, background): “The degree and direction of body size difference, termed sexual size dimorphism (SSD), varies across different animal taxa (Andersson 1994; Teder & Tammaru 2005).”
• Achieving high sexual size dimorphism in insects: females add instars (2007, methodology): “This is most likely an effect of strong positive correlation between female body mass and fecundity in insects ( Hon ě k, 1993 ): higher final body mass is likely to be more important and, in fact, is often achieved by females as compared to males (e.g. Teder & Tammaru, 2005 ).”
• Larval instar as a key element of insect growth schedules (2006, background): “Females are the larger sex in many invertebrates and poikilothermic vertebrates (e.g., Shine 1979, 1994, Head 1995; Teder & Tammaru 2005) while the malebiased SSD predominates in birds and mammals (e.g., Cabana et al. 1982, Weatherhead & Teather 1994, Isaac 2005).”
• Geographic variation in body size, sexual size dimorphism and fitness components of a seed beetle: local adaptation versus phenotypic plasticity (2009, unknown): “Several recent studies have demonstrated that the magnitude of dimorphism within populations can vary considerably with environmental conditions due to a sex difference in plasticity of body size (Blanckenhorn 1997, Morin et al. 1999, Fischer and Fiedler 2000, 2001, Fairbairn 2005, Teder and Tammar”
• Body size variation in insects: a macroecological perspective (2010, background): “…does not conform to the rule (Blanckenhorn et al., 2006), and environmental conditions affect the degree rather than direction of SSD, often as a consequence of sexrelated differences in growth and instar number (Teder & Tammaru, 2005; see also Esperk et al., 2007; Etilé & Despland, 2008).”