Dr Mark Jervis - PhD
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Selected Publications
Jervis M (2013) Robert Hooke's Micrographia: an entomologist's perspective. Journal of Natural History, in press.
Wajnberg E, Curty C & Jervis M (2012) Intra-population genetic variation in the temporal pattern of egg maturation in a parasitoid wasp. PLoSONE 7(9) e45915
Jervis MA, Moe A. & Heimpel GE (2011) The evolution of parasitoid fecundity: a paradigm under scrutiny. Ecology Letters 15: 357-364.
Pelosse P, Jervis MA, Bernstein C & Desouhant E (2011) Does synovigeny confer reproductive plasticity upon a parasitoid faced with variability in habitat richness? Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 104: 625-632
Jervis MA & Ferns PN (2011) Towards a general perspective on life-history evolution and diversification in parasitoid wasps. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 104: 443-461.
Jervis MA, Ellers J & Harvey JA (2008) Resource acquisition, allocation and utilization in parasitoid reproductive strategies. Annual Review of Entomology, 52: 361-385.
Bernstein C & Jervis MA (2008) Food-searching in parasitoids: the dilemma of choosing between 'intermediate' or future fitness gains. In: Behavioural Ecology of Parasitoids, ed. E Wajnberg, JJM van Alphen, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, pp. 129-171.
Jervis MA, Boggs CL & Ferns PN (2007). Egg maturation strategy and survival trade-offs in holometabolous insects: a comparative approach. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 40: 243-302.
Jervis MA, Ferns PN & Boggs CL (2007) A trade-off between female lifespan and larval diet breadth at the interspecific level in Lepidoptera. Evolutionary Ecology 21: 307-323.
Jervis, MA, Boggs CL & Ferns PN (2005) Egg maturation strategy and its associated trade-offs: a synthesis focusing on Lepidoptera. Ecological Entomology 30: 359-375.
Jervis MA & Ferns PN (2004) The timing of egg maturation in insects: ovigeny index and initial egg load as measures of fitness and of resource allocation. Oikos 107: 449-460.
Ellers, J and Jervis, MA (2004) Why are so few parasitoid wasp species pro-ovigenic? Evolutionary Ecology Research 6: 97-110.
Jervis MA, Ferns PN & Heimpel GE (2003) Body size and the timing of egg production: a comparative analysis. Functional Ecology 17: 375-383.
Ellers, J and Jervis, MA (2003) Body size and the timing of egg production in parasitoid wasps. Oikos 102: 164-172.
Jervis MA, Heimpel GE, Ferns PN, Harvey JA & Kidd NAC. (2001) Life-history strategies in parasitoid wasps: a comparative analysis of "ovigeny". Journal of Animal Ecology 70: 442-458.
Among 64 parasitoid wasp species, life-span is negatively correlated with ovigeny index (controlling for phylogeny), in accordance with general life-history theory which predicts a reduction in longevity with increased reproductive effort (Jervis et al.2001) The Ovigeny index is the proportion of the lifetime of the potential egg complement that is ready for laying when the female emerges (Jervis&Ferns 2004).
Schematic representation of the empirical relationships between initial egg load, lifetime potential fecundity and body size, (A) within and (B) between parasitoid wasp species. Ovigeny index declines with increasing body size both intraspecifically and interspecifically, in accordance with:
(i) the predictions of theoretical models developed for parasitoids (Ellers & Jervis, 2003) and
(ii) the predictions of general life-history theory regarding the change in reproductive effort relative to adult biomass in insects generally (Reiss, 1989).