Investigations into vertebrate life histories have demonstrated trade-offs between growth and reproduction that can result in individual and population-specific variation in life-history strategies.

Previous studies suggested that differences in age at maturity among populations of bluegill sunfish (Lepomis macrochirus) were not genetically based, but rather were a phenotypic response to the ...

Researchers at Auburn University used wild-caught bluegills (Lepomis macro-chirus) in long-term behavioral studies. Bluegills (Fig. 1) are also commonly known as bream, blue bream, sun perch, blue ...