ArticleFunctional ecology2014
Developmental plasticity of growth and digestive efficiency in dependence of early-life food availability.
Article in Functional ecology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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- Effects of exposure to elevated temperature and different food levels on the escape response and metabolism of early life stages of white seabream,Conservation physiology · 2022Article
- Evolutionary and plastic variation in larval growth and digestion reveal the complex underpinnings of size and age at maturation in dung beetles.Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- Growth, body condition and contest performance after early-life food restriction in a long-lived tropical fish.Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- Low food availability during gestation enhances offspring post-natal growth, but reduces survival, in a viviparous lizard.Oecologia · 2019Article
- Effects of variation in resource acquisition during different stages of the life cycle on life-history traits and trade-offs in a burying beetle.Journal of evolutionary biology · 2019Article
- Increased juvenile predation is not associated with evolved differences in adult brain size in Trinidadian killifish (Ecology and evolution · 2017Article
- The effect of brain size evolution on feeding propensity, digestive efficiency, and juvenile growth.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2015Article
- Comparative support for the expensive tissue hypothesis: Big brains are correlated with smaller gut and greater parental investment in Lake Tanganyika cichlids.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2015Article
- Contrasting Population and Diet Influences on Gut Length of an Omnivorous Tropical Fish, the Trinidadian Guppy (Poecilia reticulata).PloS one · 2015Article
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Abstract
Nutrition is a potent mediator of developmental plasticity. If food is scarce, developing organisms may invest into growth to outgrow size-dependent mortality (short-term benefit) and/or into an efficient digestion system (long-term benefit). We investigated this potential trade-off, by determining the influence of food availability on juvenile body and organ growth, and on adult digestive efficiency in the cichlid fish
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