PLASTICITY IN BUTTERFLY EGG SIZE: WHY LARGER OFFSPRING AT LOWER TEMPERATURES?

By K. Fischer, P. Brakefield, B. Zwaan. 2003

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. R. Stoks
2. K. Fischer
3. M. De Block
4. M. Demont
5. Isabell Karl
6. C. Boggs
7. Susann A. Janowitz
8. P. Ehrlich

In Genetics

1. Isabell Karl
2. M. Demont
3. C. Boggs
4. Susann A. Janowitz
5. W. Blanckenhorn
6. R. Stoks
7. M. De Block
8. K. Fischer

Citations in the corpus

• Allocation of larval and adult resources to reproduction in a fruit‐feeding butterfly (2004, unknown): “452) (cf. Brakefield et al. 2001; Fischer et al. 2003).”
• The evolution of phenotypic plasticity in response to anthropogenic disturbance (2010, background): “…only during development (e.g. Aubret et al., 2004; Grünbaum et al., 2007; Hoverman and Relyea, 2007), whereas at least some life-history (e.g. Fischer et al., 2003; Dzikowski et al., 2004) and physiological (e.g. Timmerman and Chapman, 2004; Seebacher, 2005) traits can continue to respond…”
• More than just indicators: A review of tropical butterfly ecology and conservation (2010, background): “Kemp, 2001), the Bicyclus dry season forms have delayed reproduction and larger but fewer eggs when compared to the wet season phenotypes (Brakefield and Reitsma, 1991; Fischer et al., 2003).”
• Temperature extremes and butterfly fitness: conflicting evidence from life history and immune function (2011, background): “…phenotypic plasticity (Brakefield & Reitsma, 1991), and because (3) there is a solid knowl- r 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Global Change Biology, 17, 676–687 edge on a variety of plastic responses to temperature (e.g. Fischer et al., 2003; Geister & Fischer, 2007; Bauerfeind et al., 2009).”
• Exploring plastic and genetic responses to temperature variation using copper butterflies (2010, background): “Presumably, large egg size helps to reduce development time and withstand environmental stress, which should confer a fitness advantage in alpine environments, characterized by short season length and cool temperatures (Fischer & Fiedler 2001e, cf. Fischer et al. 2003).”
• Bergmann and Converse Bergmann Latitudinal Clines in Arthropods: Two Ends of a Continuum?1 (2004, background): “Of the few direct experimental tests available (Ernsting and Isaaks, 1997, 2000; Blanckenhorn, 2000b), only one (Fischer et al., 2003) found support for the hypothesis that eggs laid at a particular temperature performed best at that temperature (i.”
• The Biogeography of marine invertebrate life histories. (2012, background): “It could be that the patterns in offspring size we observed with temperature are simple physiological side effects of cooler temperatures (Bownds et al. 2010, Fischer et al. 2003, Van der Have & de Jong 1996).”
• Climate‐induced effects on the meroplankton and the benthic‐pelagic ecology of the North Sea (2008, background): “…plastic traits influenced by temperature; warmer temperatures during gametogenesis are usually associated with smaller eggs and larger clutch sizes (Fischer et al. 2003); in marine organisms this phenomenon is often represented by latitudinal clines or depth variation in reproductive output…”