Within-host competition drives energy allocation trade-offs in an insect parasitoid.

ABSTRACT: Organismal body size is an important biological trait that has broad impacts across scales of biological organization, from cells to ecosystems. Size is also deeply embedded in life history theory, as the size of an individual is one factor that governs the amount of available resources an individual is able to allocate to different structures and systems. A large body of work examining resource allocation across body sizes (allometry) has demonstrated patterns of allocation to different organismal systems and morphologies, and extrapolated rules governing biological structure and organization. However, the full scope of evolutionary and ecological ramifications of these patterns have yet to be realized. Here, we show that density-dependent larval competition in a natural population of ins

SUBMITTER: Wilson JK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7182028 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature