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life-history evolution; development time; larval feeding rate; competition; tradeoffs; Drosophila melanogaster

M. Rajamani¹ N. Raghavendra^{1 2} N. G. Prasad^{3 4} N. Archana^{5 3} Amitabh Joshi³ Mallikarjun Shakarad^{1 6}

1. Behaviour, Ecology and Evolution Laboratory, Biology Department, Poornaprajna Institute of Scientific Research, P.O. Box No. 18, Devanahalli, Bangalore - 562 110, India
2. National Institute of Malaria Research (ICMR), 22 Sham Nath Marg, New Delhi - 110 054, India
3. Evolutionary Biology Laboratory, Evolutionary and Organismal Biology Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Jakkur, Bangalore - 560 064, India
4. Department of Biology, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario - K7L 3N6, Canada
5. Department of Environmental Biology, University of Delhi, University Road, Delhi - 110 007, India
6. School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi - 110 067, India

Published

December 2006

Manuscript received

7 April 2006