Reproductive constraints and the evolution of life histories with indeterminate growth. Academic Article

abstract

• A prominent feature of comparative life histories in fish (and other indeterminate growers) is the approximate invariance across species of certain dimensionless numbers made up from reproductive and timing variables. The two best known are the age at maturity (alpha) divided by the average adult lifespan (E), and the proportion of a body mass given to reproduction per year (c) multiplied by E. This article uses evolutionary life-history theory for nongrowing populations to predict the numeric value of these numbers for fish and lizards, with several new implications for the dynamics of ontogenetic development.

authors

• Winemiller, Kirk

published proceedings

• Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A

author list (cited authors)

• Charnov, E. L., Turner, T. F., & Winemiller, K. O.

citation count

• 129

complete list of authors

• Charnov, EL||Turner, TF||Winemiller, KO

publication date

• July 2001

publisher

• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences  Publisher

published in

• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America  Journal

keywords

• Animals
• Biological Evolution
• Population Growth
• Reproduction
• Species Specificity

PubMed Central ID

• 11481502

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1073/pnas.161294498

URI

• https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/178629

start page

• 9460

end page

• 9464

volume

• 98

issue

• 16

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1073%2Fpnas.161294498

user-defined tag

• 3 Good Health and Well-Being