ArticleBehavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology
Developmental plasticity in response to early-life conditions affects male sexual traits in guppies.
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Early environmental conditions play an important role in animal development. Lack of sufficient food early in life can lead to impaired growth and long-term fitness consequences. To avoid that, many animal species compensate during a period of low food availability by increasing their growth rate when food becomes abundant again, ie compensatory growth. However, compensatory growth during development may divert resources away from the ontogeny of reproductive and somatic functions, imposing hidden costs that are only apparent later in life. For ectotherms, these trade-offs are expected to be exacerbated by increased temperatures due to the high energetic demands of increased metabolism. We test if diet restriction during early development has long-term effects on the reproductive traits of male Trinidadian guppies (
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