BIOL 3600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Life History Theory, Maximum Life Span, Coevolution
24 Sep 2018
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Exam 1 will be mc with maybe one short answer question. Researchers have demonstrated that maximum lifespan of fly can be increased dramatically through artificial selection. Why do you think flies have not evolved longer lifespans: tradeoffs reproduction rates vs survival. Does life history theory make any other predictions about animal behavior: the older the wasp is, the more likely it will lay eggs in weaker hosts, life history predict older wasps will be less choosy. Mutualism two organisms that benefit with one another through their interaction. If bats in europe and fungus in europe coevolved, the bats in europe are more resistant to fungus: american bats are unable to resist fungus since they did not coevolve with it. Null hypothesis if european p. destructans will affect north american bat hibernation at least as severely as does north american p. destructans. European bats are not dying since they have had time to coevolve with disease.
