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Arthropod Life History

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The changes undergone by an arthropod during its lifetime.

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Arthropods account for over 80% of the species on earth. As such, the diversity of life histories of arthropods practically spans that of all life. Arthropods are born, grow to sexual maturity, reproduce, and die; discovering variation and patterns of these major life events is to study life history of arthropods (Stearns 1992).

There are four major groups of extant arthropods. Chelicerates (>100,000 species) include animals like spiders, mites, harvestmen, and the four extant species of horseshoe crab; Crustaceans (>70,000 species) include groups like crabs, shrimp, barnacles, woodlice, and brine shrimp; Myriapods (>16,000 species) include centipedes and millipedes. The most specious group, insects (>2 million, and perhaps as many as 30 million), includes beetles, butterflies, flies, and bees, among many others. Extant arthropods range in size from the crustacean giants to maxillopod miniatures. The...

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  1. Department of Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA

    Kenneth James Chapin

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  1. Oakland University , Rochester, Michigan, USA

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  2. Department of Psychology, Oakland University Department of Psychology, Rochester, Michigan, USA

    Todd Shackelford

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  1. Laboratory of Comparative Ethology, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 529, 20837, Poolesville, MD, USA

    Annika Paukner

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Chapin, K.J. (2017). Arthropod Life History. In: Vonk, J., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47829-6_820-1

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