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Significance of Ovipositor Length in Life Cycle Adaptations of Crickets

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Life cycle evolution is a holistic process (Roff 1981). It involves changes in many, if not most, functions and therefore structures of various body parts. Development time, one of the most crucial life cycle traits, often varies in association with adult size (Masaki 1967, 1973, 1978a,b Schoener and Janzen 1968, Roff 1978, 1981). Adult size in turn brings about not only specific consequences of ecological importance such as mating success, egg production, food utilization, competition, predation, etc. (Pianka 1974 and many others) but also general effects of allometric scaling on various body parts (Peters 1983, Schmidt-Nielsen 1984). The efficiency of an organ to perform its function may depend on its size relative to the whole or other coordinating parts of the body as well as on its absolute size.

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  1. Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87131, USA

    Fritz Taylor

  2. Department of Entomology, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, 95616, USA

    Richard Karban

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Masaki, S. (1986). Significance of Ovipositor Length in Life Cycle Adaptations of Crickets. In: Taylor, F., Karban, R. (eds) The Evolution of Insect Life Cycles. Proceedings in Life Sciences. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8666-7_2

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