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Reproductive investment flexibility is genetically and positively correlated with mean reproductive investment and mean egg size.

In collembola, the positive genetic correlation between mean egg size and mean reproductive investment, and the negative covariation of mean egg size or mean reproductive investment with adult survival are also compatible with that prediction.

LOFLEX (the other five clones) has small mean egg size and low reproductive investment, low reproductive investment flexibility, and high adult survival.

Moreover, survival was affected by an interaction between dietary/crowding conditions and mean egg size (|z| = 2.8, P = 0.005, Figure 2c, d).

As a consequence, the minimum egg size expressed in good environments would be consistently greater in populations evolving higher mean egg size.

HIFLEX includes six of our 11 clones, and is characterized by large mean egg size and reproductive investment, high reproductive investment flexibility, and low adult survival.

Egg size was found to positively affect the length and mass of electro-fished parr and emigrant parr, indicative of maternal effects on size-at-age, but unexpectedly we also found a weak negative relationship between (family-mean) egg size and the size of returning adults, controlling for variation due to sex and sea age (Fig. S1).

Mean initial egg size (measured as egg diameter, mm) differed significantly among demes (one-way ANOVA: F3, 116 = 7.13, P = 0.0002, R= 0.123).

The covariates mean lifetime egg size and longevity both explained a significant proportion of the variation in lifetime fecundity; females that laid larger eggs laid fewer in total (F1,88 = 40.30, P << 0.001), and long-lived females laid more eggs (F1,88 = 17.80, P << 0.001).

The mean values of egg size and clutch size were preferentially used, but the median of a range was accepted when a mean value was not available.

For instance, no significant differences were noticed in egg hatchability between the fed and starved rainbow trout S. gairdneri (Ridelman et al. 1984), whereas the mean diameter of egg size and GSI were not affected following exposure to limited feeding regime for a period of 550 days from first feeding to sexual maturity in the Tilapia zillii (Coward and Bromage 1999).