.... Keywords: Cricket; environmental change; pollution; reproductive investment; tradeoff © 2025. Published by The Company of Biologists Journal of Experimental Biology Accepted manuscript Summary statement Glyphosate-based herbicides (GBHs) are the most used pesticides worldwide, but animals sensitivities...

.... Transgenerational effects Group size Reproductive investment Steroid hormones Physiology Morphology Effects of the maternal social environment on female physiology, reproduction and offspring phenotype have been described in various species, including birds and mammals ( Groothuis et al., 2005...

... and growth, and later commit resources to reproduction once the number of workers in the colony surpasses a reproductive threshold. The first form of reproductive investment for a honey bee colony is the building of beeswax comb made of special large cells used for rearing males (drones). How do the workers...

... or changing environments ( Räsänen and Kruuk, 2007 ; Badyaev and Uller, 2009 ; Bonduriansky and Day, 2009 ; Bonduriansky et al., 2012 ). Basking behaviour Environmental sex determination Maternal effects Reproductive investment Sex allocation Thermal ecology Thermoregulation Summary...

... edited and approved the final version of the manuscript. COMPETING INTERESTS No competing interests declared. 24 8 2012 28 1 2013 © 2013. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2013 gecko growth life history phenotypic plasticity reproductive investment trade...

... and reproductive investment,and propose that such `costs' of male reproduction may help explain the evolution of female-larger SSD in Sceloporus . * Author for correspondence at present address: The Ohio State University,Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, Columbus, OH 43210,USA (e...

... reproductive investment differential allocation zebra finch Taeniopygia guttata Conditions experienced during early development can have profound effects on reproductive performance later in life( Lindström, 1999 ). Early development is defined as the time period from conception to sexual...

... bodies of Oregon and Washington lizards, eggs may interfere with the mechanics of running, in addition to their effect on the total mass of the female. In addition, gravid females from Washington had significantly higher reproductive investment (mass of clutch relative to the mass of the female after...

...Franz Koch; Wolfgang Wieser ABSTRACT By using a new video activity monitoring processor ( Kaufmann, 1983 ) in conjunction with a large respirometer, we have measured swimming activity, oxygen consumption and reproductive investment (in the form of gonadal growth) of roach (Rutilus rutilus L...