TY - JOUR
T1 - The evolutionary ecology of offspring size in marine invertebrates
AU - Marshall, Dustin
AU - Keough, Michael
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Intraspecific variation in offspring size is of fundamental ecological and evolutionary importance. The level of provisioning an organism receives from its mother can have far reaching consequences for subsequent survival and performance. In marine systems, the traditional focus was on the remarkable variation in offspring size among species but there is increasing focus on variation in offspring size within species. Here we review the incidence and consequences of intraspecific offspring-size variation for marine invertebrates.
AB - Intraspecific variation in offspring size is of fundamental ecological and evolutionary importance. The level of provisioning an organism receives from its mother can have far reaching consequences for subsequent survival and performance. In marine systems, the traditional focus was on the remarkable variation in offspring size among species but there is increasing focus on variation in offspring size within species. Here we review the incidence and consequences of intraspecific offspring-size variation for marine invertebrates.
UR - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0065288107530014
U2 - 10.1016/S0065-2881(07)53001-4
DO - 10.1016/S0065-2881(07)53001-4
M3 - Article
SN - 0065-2881
VL - 53
SP - 1
EP - 60
JO - Advances in Marine Biology
JF - Advances in Marine Biology
ER -