Corticosterone manipulation reveals differences in hierarchical organization of multidimensional reproductive trade-offs in r-strategist and K-strategist females
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Life history trade‐offs are often hierarchical with decisions at one level affecting lower level trade‐offs. We investigated trade‐off structure in female side‐blotched lizards (Uta stansburiana), which exhibit two evolved strategies: yellow‐throated females are K‐strategists and orange‐throated are r‐strategists. Corticosterone treatment was predicted to differentially organize these females’ reproductive decisions. Corticosterone‐treated yellow females suppressed reproduction but survived well, and augmented egg mass without decreasing clutch size. Conversely, corticosterone enhanced mortality and reproductive rates in orange females, and increased egg mass only after lengthy exposure. Corticosterone did not affect post‐laying condition, suggesting that corticosterone increased egg mass through enhanced energy acquisition (income breeding). Corticosterone enhanced survival of lightweight females, but decreased survival of heavy females, introducing a foraging vs. predation trade‐off. We conclude that rather than being a direct, functional relationship, observed trade‐offs between offspring size and number represent evolved differences in hierarchical organization of multidimensional trade‐offs, particularly in response to stress.
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In side-blotched lizards, corticosterone suppresses reproduction in females with a slow life-history phenotype but increases reproductive rate in females with a fast life-history phenotype.
“This kind of strategy-specific effect has been recently documented in side-blotched lizards: administration of corticosterone (the analogue of cortisol) suppresses reproduction in females with a slow LH phenotype, but increases the reproductive rate of females with a fast LH phenotype (Lancaster et al., 2007).”
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- Authors
- LANCASTER, L. T., HAZARD, L. C., CLOBERT, J., & SINERVO, B. R.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Santa Cruz (US)
- Montclair State University (US)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- Corresponding author
- LANCASTER, L. T.
- Venue
- Journal of Evolutionary Biology
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2008-01-03
- Volume
- 21
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 556-565
- ISSN
- 1010-061X (ISSN-L)
- 1420-9101
- OpenAlex
- W1998768187
- Cited by
- 88
- References
- 51
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- FWCI
- 8.60
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Evolutionary Biology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Amphibian and Reptile Biology
- Keywords
- corticosterone, reproductive trade-offs, side-blotched lizard, Uta stansburiana, egg weight, clutch size, income breeding, stress response, life history evolution, female survival, body condition
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Corticosterone, Female, Lizards, Ovum, Pigmentation, Random Allocation, Stress, Physiological, Time Factors, Survival Analysis, Body Size, Clutch Size, Oviparity
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