Managing metabolic resources is critical for insects during diapause when food sources are
limited or unavailable. Insects accumulate reserves prior to diapause, and metabolic …

Food shortages represent a common challenge for most animal species. As a consequence,
many have evolved metabolic strategies encompassing extreme starvation-resistance …

Assumptions about mortality rates form a cornerstone for models of life-history evolution.
When seeking adaptive explanations for body sizes, the size dependence of predation risk …

Major biological and biogeographical rules link body size variation with latitude or
environmental temperature, and these rules are often studied in isolation. Within multivoltine …

Optimality models predict that diet-induced bivariate reaction norms for age and size at
maturity can have diverse shapes, with the slope varying from negative to positive. To …

The body size of an adult insect is strongly determined by the environmental factors to which
it is exposed during growth and development. Insect species confronted with a high …

Many organisms express discrete alternative phenotypes (polyphenisms) in relation to
predictable environmental variation. However, the evolution of alternative life-history …

Malaria in Africa is vectored primarily by the Anopheles gambiae complex. Although the
mechanisms of population persistence during the dry season are not yet known, targeting …

The relative roles of genetic differentiation and developmental plasticity in generating
latitudinal gradients in life histories remain insufficiently understood. In particular, this …

Seasonal phenotypic plasticity entails differential trait expression depending on the time of
season. The facultative induction of winter diapause in temperate insects is a developmental …