Ontogenetic and static allometry of hind femur length in the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) with implications for evo-devo of morphological scaling
Neiro, J. S.
Show abstract
The evolution of morphological allometry or scaling is a long-standing enigma in biology. Three types of allometric relationships have been defined: static, ontogenetic and evolutionary allometry. However, the theory of the interrelationship between these three types of allometry have not been tested in Orthopterans and to a lesser extent in hemimetabolous insects. Here, the ontogenetic allometry of hind femur length in the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus was observed to be slightly positive as compared with a negative allometric relationship for Orthopterans in general, while the instar-specific static allometries were highly variable. The findings give support for the size-grain hypothesis in Orthoptera and indicate that ontogenetic allometries may not predict evolutionary allometries. The current model for the developmental basis of allometry derived from holometabolous insects is extended into a phylogenetic context and the potential of G. bimaculatus and other Orthopterans for further experiments of evo-devo of morphological scaling is discussed.
Matching journals
The top 7 journals account for 50% of the predicted probability mass.
Similar papers in this journal
- Persistence of the ecological niche in pond damselflies underlies a stable adaptive zone despite varying selection 94%
- Self-fertilization, but not mating strategy, predicts the evolution of sex allocation plasticity in a hermaphroditic flatworm genus 94%
- Like mother, like daughter? Phenotypic plasticity, environmental covariation, and heritability of size in a parthenogenetic wasp 94%
Similar papers in this journal
Similar papers in this journal
"Similar papers" are the closest papers from that journal in the model's embedding space. They show what the match is built on, but the ranking comes mostly from a classifier over the whole training set, not from these examples alone.