Egg size is one of the most important aspects of the life history of free-spawning marine
organisms, and it is correlated with larval developmental mode and many other life-history …

SYNOPSIS. Propagule size is perhaps the most widely recognized and studied maternal
effect in ecology, yet its evolution is not well-understood. The large body of extant optimality …

The egg is, perhaps, the singular, most influential cell in the life history of any marine
invertebrate. Extremes in egg size are correlated with developmental mode and, as a …

Preexisting developmental plasticity in feeding larvae may contribute to the evolutionary
transition from development with a feeding larva to nonfeeding larval development …

differences in egg and larval quality for some sea urchins and seastars were investigated in
the field acid in the laboratory. in the field, sea urchins and seastars found at sites with an …

For organisms with complex life histories, processes occurring during transitions between
stages can strongly affect population dynamics. The major life history transition for many …

Any single method of testing food limitation can be misleading or inconclusive. We therefore
used five different tests for food‐limited growth of larvae of a sea urchin from the northwest …

We studied interrelationships between initial egg size and biomass, duration of
embryogenesis at different salinities, and initial larval biomass in an estuarine crab …

Maternal nutritional stress lowers the organic content of eggs and slows the initial growth of
larvae of sea urchins and bivalves. Also, larval nutritional stress changes the form and …

Colonies of two scleractinian reef coral species, Acropora longicyathus and Acropora
aspera were transplanted into patch reefs at One Tree Reef, Great Barrier Reef, Australia as …