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The Predictable Complexity of Evolutionary Allometry
Allometry has been a paradigm of constraints, including intrinsic constraints on the evolvability of allometry, as a source of developmental and...
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Commentary: The ecological and evolutionary implications of allometry
Allometry—the study of proportional growth of body parts, and the relationship of body size to an organism’s morphology, physiology and behaviour—is...
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Postweaning Skull Growth in Living American and Australasian Marsupials: Allometry and Evolution
Previous reports have shown an effect of historical legacy on patterns of growth of the mammal skull. The knowledge of developmental patterns of the...
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Size-dependent growth strategy and allometry, but not complementarity, as major drivers of fine-root biomass and productivity across warm-temperate forests
Fine roots play a pivotal role in terrestrial carbon and nutrient cycling. However, our knowledge on drivers of fine-root biomass (FRB) and...
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Can Patterns of Static Allometry be Inferred from Regimes of Sexual Selection in the Japanese Beetle?
Evolutionary biologists have long posited that secondary sexual characters experiencing positive directional selection should be positively...
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Semicircular canal shape diversity among modern lepidosaurs: life habit, size, allometry
BackgroundThe shape of the semicircular canals of the inner ear of living squamate reptiles has been used to infer phylogenetic relationships, body...
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Quantifying maternal investment in mammals using allometry
Maternal investment influences the survival and reproduction of both mothers and their progeny and plays a crucial role in understanding individuals’...
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Postweaning Skull Growth in Living American and Australasian Marsupials: Allometry and Evolution
Previous reports have shown an effect of historical legacy on patterns of growth of the mammal skull. The knowledge of developmental patterns of the...
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Female preference for super-sized male ornaments and its implications for the evolution of ornament allometry
It has been argued that disproportionately larger ornaments in bigger males—positive allometry—is the outcome of sexual selection operating on the...
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Morphological allometry and life history including reproductive swarming of nereidid polychaete Tylorrhynchus osawai in a tidal river in Kyushu, Japan
Tylorrhynchus osawai , nereidid polychaete that is considered to support estuarine biodiversity, undergoes a unique epitokous metamorphosis for...
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Size variation, allometry and mating success in Aotearoa|New Zealand kelp flies (Coelopidae)
The need to respond quickly to the presence of an ephemeral resource required for breeding is often a feature of scramble competition mating systems....
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Geographic Variability of the Shape of the Toothrow in the Arctic Fox (Vulpes lagopus L. 1758): The Role of Asymmetry and Allometry
Abstract —The geographic variability of the shape of the toothrow of the upper cheek was studied in Arctic foxes using the methods of geometric...
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Combining accelerometry with allometry for estimating daily energy expenditure in joules when in-lab calibration is unavailable
BackgroundAll behaviour requires energy, and measuring energy expenditure in standard units (joules) is key to linking behaviour to ecological...
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Crown allometry and growing space requirements of four rare domestic tree species compared to oak and beech: implications for adaptive forest management
Rare domestic tree species are increasingly being viewed as promising alternatives and additions to current main tree species in forests facing...
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Deceived, but not betrayed: static allometry suggests female ornaments in the long-tailed dance fly (Rhamphomyia longicauda) exaggerate condition to males
Despite their prevalence in nature, the evolution of sex-specific female ornaments is still not well understood. Although in some cases (often...
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Solving the grand challenge of phenotypic integration: allometry across scales
Phenotypic integration is a concept related to the cascade of trait relationships from the lowest organizational levels, i.e. genes, to the highest,...
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Variation in allometry along the weapon-signal continuum
Structures used in intrasexual competition span a continuum, with pure weapons that are used exclusively in physical fights at one extreme and pure...
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Centric Allometry: Studying Growth Using Landmark Data
The geometric morphometric (GMM) construction of Procrustes shape coordinates from a data set of homologous landmark configurations puts exact...
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Assesment and interpretation of negative forelimb allometry in the evolution of non-avian Theropoda
BackgroundThe origin of birds is marked by a significant decrease in body size along with an increase in relative forelimb size. However, before the...
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Sexual selection leads to positive allometry but not sexual dimorphism in the expression of horn shape in the blue wildebeest, Connochaetes taurinus
Sexual selection is thought to be an important driver of adaptation, speciation and extinction. Empirically testing these predictions across...
