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Evaluation of offspring size-number invariants in twelve species of lizard

Författare

  • Tobias Uller
  • Geoffrey While
  • Erik Wapstra
  • Daniel Warner
  • Brett Goodman
  • Lin Schwartzkopf
  • Tracy Langkilde
  • Paul Doughty
  • Raju Radder
  • D Rohr
  • Michael Bull
  • Richard Shine
  • Mats Olsson

Summary, in English

The optimal division of resources into offspring size vs. number is one of the classic problems in life-history evolution. Importantly, models that take into account the discrete nature of resource division at low clutch sizes suggest that the variance in offspring size should decline with increasing clutch size according to an invariant relationship. We tested this prediction in 12 species of lizard with small clutch sizes. Contrary to expectations, not all species showed a negative relationship between variance in offspring size and clutch size, and the pattern significantly deviated from quantitative predictions in five of the 12 species. We suggest that the main limitation of current size-number models for small clutch sizes is that they rely on assumptions of hierarchical allocation strategies with independence between allocation decisions. Indeed, selection may favour alternative mechanisms of reproductive allocation that avoid suboptimal allocation imposed by the indivisible fraction at low clutch sizes.

Publiceringsår

2009

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

143-151

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Journal of evolutionary biology

Volym

22

Issue

1

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

John Wiley & Sons Inc.

Ämne

  • Biological Sciences

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1420-9101