Making eggs from nectar: the role of life history and dietary carbon turnover in butterfly reproductive resource allocation

By D. O'Brien, C. Boggs, M. Fogel. 2004

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Isotopic ecology ten years after a call for more laboratory experiments (2009, background): “Total egg production is limited by the amount of indispensable amino acids stored as larvae (O’Brien et al. 2004).”
Lifetime nutrient dynamics reveal simultaneous capital and income breeding in a parasitoid (2005, background): “Key words: host-feeding; host–parasitoid dynamics; income and capital breeding; life history strategies; lipids; nutrient acquisition; nutrient allocation; nutrient dynamics; parasitoids; population dynamics.”
Egg maturation strategy and its associated trade‐offs: a synthesis focusing on Lepidoptera (2005, background): “…(h) adult feeding habit (Eidmann, 1931; Flanders, 1950; Boggs, 1986; Jervis & Kidd, 1986; Jervis et al., 1993; Miller, 1996; Gilbert & Jervis, 1998; O’Brien et al., 2004), (i) the degree of host fidelity (in parasitoids: Roitberg, 2000), and (j) the proportion of attacked hosts used by the…”