Crean, Angela J. Marshall, Dustin J.
Published in
Marine Biology
The evolution of egg size has been intensively studied due to its influence on both fecundity and offspring performance. In marine broadcast spawners, egg size influences the probability of sperm–egg collision, and therefore, egg size can also influence fertilization success, depending on the local concentration of sperm. Many broadcast-spawning sp...
Roche, Benjamin Guégan, Jean-François Bousquet, François
Published in
BMC Bioinformatics
BackgroundComputational biology is often associated with genetic or genomic studies only. However, thanks to the increase of computational resources, computational models are appreciated as useful tools in many other scientific fields. Such modeling systems are particularly relevant for the study of complex systems, like the epidemiology of emergin...
Sprenger, Dennis Anthes, Nils Michiels, Nico K.
Published in
Marine Biology
Offspring size can have pervasive effects throughout the life history stages of many marine invertebrates. Although maternal offspring investment is largely determined by the environmental conditions experienced by the mother, egg size might additionally vary in response to the number and quality of previous mating partners. Positive effects of mat...
Grech, Katrina Maung, Liam Aye Read, Andrew F
Published in
Malaria Journal
BackgroundThe environmental conditions experienced by parents are increasingly recognized to impact the success of offspring. Little is known on the presence of such parental effects in Anopheles. If present, parental effects could influence mosquito breeding programmes, some malaria control measures and have epidemiological and evolutionary conseq...
Gianguzza, P. Jensen, K. R. Badalamenti, F. Riggio, S.
Published in
Marine Biology
This paper provides information on spawn morphology and egg features of the stenophagous planktotrophic Mediterranean sacoglossan Oxynoe olivacea. Smith and Fretwell’s hypothesis, predicting that individuals of the same population growing in the same environmental conditions and varying in size should spawn eggs of a constant size, was tested in a ...
Dias, N. Sprung, M. Hassall, M.
Published in
Marine Biology
Four species of isopod characteristic of salt marsh habitats, Tylos ponticus, Porcellio lamellatus, Halophiloscia couchii and Armadillidium album coexist in the upper reaches of the Ria Formosa lagoon salt marsh system in southern Portugal. In this locality, T. ponticus is the most abundant of the four species with mean annual densities of 2,950 m−...
Valentinsson, D.
Published in
Marine Biology
This paper examines relationships between maternal phenotype and offspring phenotype in the commercially exploited marine neogastropod Buccinum undatum (L.). The study also aimed to estimate the effects of female size on subsequent recruitment, and to determine the reproductive cycle of B. undatum in Swedish waters. The evaluation of gonad developm...
Rao, T. Ramakrishna
Published in
Resonance
The cause-effect relationship for a wide variety of biological processes from molecular to ecosystem levels can be described by a curvilinear function called the rectangular hyperbola. Although a simple algebraic equation adequately describes this curve, biological models have generated different equations incorporating biologically meaningful para...
