For the relationship between clutch size and egg size, I understand the author response and the limits of this analyze given the experimental design. Although only one egg clutch was collected per parental snail, I still think that the relationship between egg size and clutch size could be analyzed at the population level (i.e. by pooling **data** from all females together for each experimental treatments). This would provide us some information on whether the allocation to egg numbers versus egg size was affected by the thermal treatments. That being said, I feel that the study could be accepted for publication without this analyze (although this would be very interesting). I suggest to at least mention this point in the discussion.