Abstract
The concept of trade-offs is central to many aspects of evolutionary biology. Life-history models, for example, routinely assume that some component of fitness, such as fecundity, can only be increased at the expense of another component, such as survival. Models of the evolution of specialization similarly assume that efficiency at one task can be achieved only when an organism is inefficient at others (e.g. Wilson and Turelli 1986). Life-history parameters may themselves be important in the evolution of specialization if, for example, different strategies result in maximum fitness in different habitats or in association with certain hosts.
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Brown, J.M., Wilson, D.S. (1994). Poecilochirus carabi: Behavioral and Life-History Adaptations to Different Hosts and the Consequences of Geographical Shifts in Host Communities. In: Houck, M.A. (eds) Mites. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2389-5_1
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