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Mother and offspring fitness in an insect with maternal care: phenotypic
trade-offs between egg number, egg mass and egg care
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Koch LK
; Meunier J
BMC Evol Biol
2014[Jun]; 14
(ä): 125
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BACKGROUND: Oviparous females have three main options to increase their
reproductive success: investing into egg number, egg mass and/or egg care.
Although allocating resources to either of these three components is known to
shape offspring number and size, potential trade-offs among them may have key
impacts on maternal and offspring fitness. Here, we tested the occurrence of
phenotypic trade-offs between egg number, egg mass and maternal expenditure on
egg care in the European earwig, Forficula auricularia, an insect with pre- and
post-hatching forms of maternal care. In particular, we used a series of
laboratory observations and experiments to investigate whether these three
components non-additively influenced offspring weight and number at hatching, and
whether they were associated with potential costs to females in terms of future
reproduction. RESULTS: We found negative associations between egg number and mass
as well as between egg number and maternal expenditure on egg care. However,
these trade-offs could only be detected after statistically correcting for female
weight at egg laying. Hatchling number was not determined by single or additive
effects among the three life-history traits, but instead by pairwise interactions
among them. In particular, offspring number was positively associated with the
number of eggs only in clutches receiving high maternal care or consisting of
heavy eggs, and negatively associated with mean egg mass in clutches receiving
low care. In contrast, offspring weight was positively associated with egg mass
only. Finally, maternal expenditure on egg care reduced their future
reproduction, but this effect was only detected when mothers were experimentally
isolated from their offspring at egg hatching. CONCLUSIONS: Overall, our study
reveals simultaneous trade-offs between the number, mass and care of eggs. It
also demonstrates that these factors interact in their impact on offspring
production, and that maternal expenditure on egg care possibly shapes female
future reproduction. These findings emphasize that studying reproductive success
requires consideration of phenotypic trade-offs between egg-number, egg mass and
egg care in oviparous species.