Human harvest of phenotypically desirable animals from wild populations imposes selection
that can reduce the frequencies of those desirable phenotypes. Hunting and fishing contrast …

By providing new approaches to the investigation of demographic and evolutionary
dynamics of wild populations, molecular genetics has led to fundamental changes in our …

Body size determines total reproductive-energy output. Most theories assume reproductive
output is a fixed proportion of size, with respect to mass, but formal macroecological tests are …

The value of big old fat fecund female fish (BOFFFFs) in fostering stock productivity and
stability has long been underappreciated by conventional fisheries science and …

Oogenesis in fishes follows a universal plan; yet, due to differences in the synchrony and
rate of egg development, spawning frequency varies from daily to once in a lifetime. Some …

Mortality during the early stages is a major cause of the natural variations in the size and
recruitment strength of marine fish populations. In this study, the relation between the size-at …

This review updates developments of the concept of negligible senescence, proposed in
Longevity, Senescence, and the Genome in 1990, with new information for turtles, rockfish …

Maternal effects are increasingly recognized as important drivers of population dynamics
and determinants of evolutionary trajectories. Recently, there has been a proliferation of …

Size structure of fish stock plays an important role in maintaining sustainability of the
population. Size distribution of an exploited stock is predicted to shift toward small …

Accumulating evidence indicates that as global temperatures rise, reproductive behaviors,
including migrations, are occurring earlier across a range of taxa. Alone, these changes are …