Abstract
Insect life cycle syndromes are suites of traits that covary and function together. These suites involve four main physiological or behavioral elements: reproduction, growth and development, dormancy, and migration (Tauber and Tauber 1981). Each must be synchronized with appropriate seasonal and habitat conditions, and the behavior and physiology ensuring breeding at the proper time and place are important in conferring the requisite flexibility (Dingle 1984). Flexibility can and does occur in all phases of the life cycle, and I shall explore here some of the ways it does so. But the notion of a syndrome of co-functioning traits suggests that changes at one stage of a life cycle or in one trait may have consequences at other stages and in other traits. If so, important evolutionary questions concern both which characters are coupled or most intimately interwoven and which mechanisms promote the associations. For evolution to act on syndromes, there must obviously be genetic variation for individual traits and genetic covariation among traits. I shall, therefore, be concerned here with both genotypes and phenotypes.
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Dingle, H. (1986). The Evolution of Insect Life Cycle Syndromes. 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_12
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