1. Bone structure and the evolution of different pathways to gigantism in dinosaurs and megamammals
   2025/11/03 by Tito Aureliano, Virgínia Maciel, Vilma Pereira da Costa +5 · 1 citation
   Earth and Planetary Sciences · Social Sciences · #Allometry #Convergent evolution #Cortical bone #Evolution and Paleontology Studies #Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology #Phylogenetic comparative methods #Phylogenetic tree #Phylogenetics #Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology #Postcrania #Quadrupedalism #Trabecular bone
2. Distinctive increase in offspring size in sea otters: evolutionary changes in and beyond the trade-off against offspring number
   2025/10/11 by Tomohiro Harano, Nobuyuki Kutsukake · 2 voices
   Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Environmental Science · #Adaptation (eye) #Allometry #Bat Biology and Ecology Studies #Evolutionary ecology #Fish Ecology and Management Studies #Litter #Marine animal studies overview #Maternal effect #Offspring #Reproduction #Selection (genetic algorithm)
3. Looks Can Be Deceiving: Morphological Traits Are Weakly Associated With the Isotopic Niches of Freshwater Fishes
   2025/09/01 by Julian D. Olden, Friedrich W. Keppeler, Timothy D. Jardine +9 · 2 voices
   Environmental Science · #Allometry #Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior #Ecological niche #Ecomorphology #Fish Ecology and Management Studies #Foraging #Herbivore #Isotope Analysis in Ecology #Niche #Omnivore #Taxon #Trophic level
4. Salamander ecomorphology reveals a unique suite of climbing adaptations
   2025/08/01 by Jonathan M. Huie, Grace Park, Sandy Kawano · 1 voice · 4 citations
   Earth and Planetary Sciences · Engineering · Environmental Science · #Adhesion, Friction, and Surface Interactions #Allometry #Amphibian and Reptile Biology #Biology #Climbing #Ecology #Ecomorphology #Evolutionary biology #Habitat #Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology #Salamander #Zoology
5. Allometric scaling of somatic mutation and epimutation rates in trees
   2024/10/21 by Frank Johannes · 9 citations
   Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Environmental Science · #Allometry #Biology #Ecology #Evolution and Genetic Dynamics #Evolutionary biology #Gene #Genetic diversity and population structure #Genetics #Mutation #Mutation Accumulation #Mutation rate #Scaling #Somatic cell #Species Distribution and Climate Change
6. Allometry of behavior and niche differentiation among congeneric African antelopes
   2022/07/15 by Joshua H. Daskin, Justine A. Becker, Tyler R. Kartzinel +7 · 14 citations
   Environmental Science · Psychology · #Allometry #Biology #Context (archaeology) #Ecology #Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies #Ecosystem #Forage #Foraging #Habitat #Intraspecific competition #Niche differentiation #Optimal foraging theory #Primate Behavior and Ecology #Range (aeronautics) #Sympatric speciation #Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
7. Beyond the beak: Brain size and allometry in avian craniofacial evolution
   2021/09/23 by Jesús Marugán‐Lobón, Sergio M. Nebreda, Guillermo Navalón +2 · 12 citations
   Earth and Planetary Sciences · Mathematics · #Allometry #Anatomy #Beak #Biology #Brain size #Crania #Cranial vault #Craniofacial #Ecology #Evolution and Paleontology Studies #Evolutionary biology #Morphological variations and asymmetry #Morphometrics #Neurocranium #Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology #Skull #Variation (astronomy) #Zoology
8. Building a Body Shape Morphospace of Teleostean Fishes
   2019/06/25 by S A Price, Samantha A. Price, Sarah T. Friedman +9 · 1 voice · 26 citations
   Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · #Allometry #Amphibian and Reptile Biology #Biology #Body plan #Clade #Diversification (marketing strategy) #Ecology #Ecomorphology #Evolution and Paleontology Studies #Evolutionary biology #Fish <Actinopterygii> #Fishery #Habitat #Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology #Phylogenetic comparative methods #Phylogenetic tree #Phylogenetics #Zoology
9. Integration and the Developmental Genetics of Allometry
   2019/06/10 by Benedikt Hallgrímsson, David C. Katz, David C Katz +13 · 22 citations
   Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Environmental Science · Mathematics · #Allometry #Biology #Ecology #Evolutionary biology #Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock #Morphological variations and asymmetry #Variation (astronomy) #Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
10. Morphological adaptations for relatively larger brains in hummingbird skulls
    2018/09/27 by Diego Ocampo, Gilbert Barrantes, J. Albert C. Uy · 1 citation
    Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · Neuroscience · #Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology #Ichthyology and Marine Biology #Marine animal studies overview #Skull #Heterochrony #Allometry #Biology #Hummingbird #Brain size #Ecomorphology #Ossification #Beak #Adaptation (eye) #Zoology #Encephalization #Convergent evolution #Foraging #Anatomy #Evolutionary biology #Ecology #Phylogenetics #Ontogeny #Neuroscience #Habitat
11. Adaptive diversification of growth allometry in the plant Arabidopsis thaliana
    2018/03/14 by François Vasseur, Moisés Expósito‐Alonso, Óscar J. Ayala-Garay +5 · 1 citation
    Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Leaf Properties and Growth Measurement #Plant Parasitism and Resistance #Agronomic Practices and Intercropping Systems #Allometry #Diversification (marketing strategy) #Arabidopsis thaliana #Biology #Arabidopsis #Adaptive evolution #Botany #Ecology #Business #Genetics #Gene
12. Did saber-tooth kittens grow up musclebound? A study of postnatal limb bone allometry in felids from the Pleistocene of Rancho La Brea
    2017/09/27 by Katherine L. Long, Donald R. Prothero, Meena A. Madan +1 · 1 citation
    Earth and Planetary Sciences · Veterinary · Environmental Science · #Evolution and Paleontology Studies #Veterinary Equine Medical Research #Wildlife Ecology and Conservation #Allometry #Juvenile #Biology #Forelimb #Panthera #Ontogeny #Predation #Hominidae #Anatomy #Pleistocene #Zoology #Paleontology #Ecology #Biological evolution
13. A potential pitfall in studies of biological shape: Does size matter?
    2017/07/12 by David Outomuro, Frank Johansson · 11 citations
    Earth and Planetary Sciences · Mathematics · #Allometry #Biology #Ecology #Evolution and Paleontology Studies #Evolutionary biology #Mathematics #Morphological variations and asymmetry #Morphometrics #Physics #Shape analysis (program analysis) #Shape change #Statistics #Variation (astronomy)
14. Patterns of postnatal ontogeny of the skull and lower jaw of snakes as revealed by micro‐CTscan data and three‐dimensional geometric morphometrics
    2016/06/22 by Alessandro Palci, Michael S. Y. Lee, Mark N. Hutchinson · 15 citations
    Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · Mathematics · #Allometry #Amphibian and Reptile Biology #Anatomy #Biology #Ecology #Evolution and Paleontology Studies #Juvenile #Lizard #Morphological variations and asymmetry #Morphometrics #Ontogeny #Quadrate bone #Skull #Snout #Zoology
15. A statistical framework to explore ontogenetic growth variation among individuals and populations: a marine fish example
    2014/08/05 by John R. Morrongiello, Ronald E. Thresher · 22 citations
    Environmental Science · #Allometry #Biology #Climate change #Ecology #Environmental change #Fish <Actinopterygii> #Fish Ecology and Management Studies #Fishery #Fishing #Isotope Analysis in Ecology #Juvenile #Marine and fisheries research #Otolith #Range (aeronautics) #Temporal scales
16. Body shape shifting during growth permits tests that distinguish between competing geometric theories of metabolic scaling
    2014/07/24 by Andrew G. Hirst, Douglas S. Glazier, David Atkinson · 1 citation
    Environmental Science · Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Mathematics · #Physiological and biochemical adaptations #Fish Ecology and Management Studies #Aquaculture Nutrition and Growth #Scaling #Biology #Intraspecific competition #Metabolic rate #Ecology #Ontogeny #Allometry #Biological system #Geometry #Mathematics
17. Allometric deviations of plasma carotenoids in raptors
    2014/04/10 by Guillermo Blanco, Luis M. Bautista, Dámaso Hornero‐Méndez +5 · 1 citation
    Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Environmental Science · #Animal Behavior and Reproduction #Avian ecology and behavior #Physiological and biochemical adaptations #Allometry #Carotenoid #Biology #Zoology #Ecology #Botany
18. Feeding biomechanics inAcanthostegaand across the fish–tetrapod transition
    2014/02/26 by James M. Neenan, Marcello Ruta, Jennifer A. Clack +1 · 1 citation
    Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · #Allometry #Anatomy #Biology #Carboniferous #Devonian #Ecology #Evolution and Paleontology Studies #Ichthyology and Marine Biology #Morphometrics #Paleontology #Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology #Skull #Taxon #Tetrapod (structure) #Zoology
19. Updated generalized biomass equations for North American tree species
    2013/12/29 by D. C. Chojnacky, David C. Chojnacky, L. S. Heath +3 · 18 citations
    Engineering · Environmental Science · Mathematics · #Allometry #Biology #Biomass (ecology) #Biomass partitioning #Diameter at breast height #Ecology #Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies #Environmental science #Forest ecology and management #Forest inventory #Forest management #Geography #Geometry #Mathematics #Regression #Regression analysis #Scale (ratio) #Scaling #Seemingly unrelated regressions #Statistics #Tree (set theory) #Tree Root and Stability Studies #Tree allometry
20. Scaling and Scale Symmetries in Biological Systems
    2013/12/13 by Giuseppe Longo, G. Longo, Maël Montévil · 1 citation
    Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Mathematics · #Allometry #Biological system #Biology #Computer science #Ecology #Focus (optics) #Fractal #Fractal and DNA sequence analysis #Geometry #Homogeneous space #Mathematical analysis #Mathematics #Observable #Physics #Robustness (evolution) #Scale (ratio) #Scale invariance #Scaling #Statistical physics #Statistics
21. Skull allometry and sexual dimorphism in the ontogeny of the southern elephant seal (Miroungaleonina)
    2013/11/19 by Bárbara A. Tarnawski, Guillermo H. Cassini, David A. Flores · 1 citation
    Environmental Science · Earth and Planetary Sciences · Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Marine animal studies overview #Evolution and Paleontology Studies #Cephalopods and Marine Biology #Sexual dimorphism #Biology #Ontogeny #Allometry #Zoology #Southern elephant seal #Interspecific competition #Skull #Heterochrony #Ecology #Anatomy
22. Node‐specific branching and heterochronic changes underlie population‐level differences in Mimulus guttatus (Phrymaceae) shoot architecture
    2011/11/29 by Robert L. Baker, Pamela K. Diggle · 5 citations
    Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Allometry #Axillary bud #Biology #Botany #Demography #Ecology #Flowering Plant Growth and Cultivation #Heterochrony #Meristem #Ontogeny #Perennial plant #Plant Molecular Biology Research #Plant and animal studies #Population #Shoot
23. BODY MASS AND FORAGING ECOLOGY PREDICT EVOLUTIONARY PATTERNS OF SKELETAL PNEUMATICITY IN THE DIVERSE “WATERBIRD” CLADE
    2011/10/21 by Nathan D. Smith · 1 citation
    Environmental Science · Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Avian ecology and behavior #Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology #Amphibian and Reptile Biology #Biology #Foraging #Clade #Phylogenetic tree #Trait #Phylogenetics #Ecology #Phylogenetic comparative methods #Range (aeronautics) #Evolutionary biology #Ecomorphology #Taxon #Allometry #Zoology
24. Comparative Energetics of the Giant Hummingbird (Patagona gigas)
    2011/04/28 by María José Fernández Gómez, Robert Dudley, Francisco Bozinovic · 2 citations
    Environmental Science · Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Physiological and biochemical adaptations #Bat Biology and Ecology Studies #High Altitude and Hypoxia #Hummingbird #Allometry #Basal metabolic rate #Biology #Energetics #Range (aeronautics) #Zoology #Ecology #Endocrinology
25. Dispelling dog dogma: an investigation of heterochrony in dogs using 3D geometric morphometric analysis of skull shape
    2011/03/01 by Abby Grace Drake · 1 citation
    Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Earth and Planetary Sciences · Mathematics · #Allometry #Anatomy #Biology #Ecology #Endocast #Evolution and Paleontology Studies #Evolutionary biology #Genetics #Heterochrony #Human-Animal Interaction Studies #Morphological variations and asymmetry #Morphometrics #Neoteny #Neurocranium #Ontogeny #Skull #Zoology
26. Unusual allometry for sexual size dimorphism in a cichlid where males are extremely larger than females
    2010/05/01 by Kazutaka Ota, Masanori Kohda, Tetsu Sato · 1 citation
    Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Environmental Science · #Allometry #Amphibian and Reptile Biology #Animal Behavior and Reproduction #Biology #Cichlid #Ecology #Evolutionary biology #Fish <Actinopterygii> #Genetics #Sex characteristics #Sexual dimorphism #Sexual selection #Wildlife Ecology and Conservation #Zoology
27. Multiplicative by nature: Why logarithmic transformation is necessary in allometry
    2008/12/31 by Andrew J. Kerkhoff, Brian J. Enquist · 1 citation
    Mathematics · #Allometry #Biology #Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills #Ecology #Logarithm #Mathematical analysis #Mathematics #Multiplicative function #Statistics #Transformation (genetics)
28. Evidence for “diminishing returns” from the scaling of stem diameter and specific leaf area
    2008/04/29 by Karl J. Niklas, Edward D. Cobb · 7 citations
    Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Environmental Science · Mathematics · #Allometry #Biology #Critical exponent #Ecology #Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies #Exponent #Forest ecology and management #Geometry #Leaf Properties and Growth Measurement #Mathematics #Scaling #Statistics
29. A general model for allometric covariation in botanical form and function
    2007/07/30 by Charles A. Price, Brian J. Enquist, Van M. Savage · 1 citation
    Environmental Science · Mathematics · #Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics #Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies #Species Distribution and Climate Change #Allometry #Scaling #Selection (genetic algorithm) #Branching (polymer chemistry) #Statistical physics #Scale (ratio) #Biology #Function (biology) #Core (optical fiber) #Uncorrelated #Mathematics #Evolutionary biology #Biological system #Statistics #Ecology #Computer science #Physics #Geometry #Artificial intelligence
30. Having a big nose: structure, ontogeny, and function of the elephant seal proboscis
    2007/02/01 by Simona Sanvito, Filippo Galimberti, Edward H. Miller · 2 citations
    Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Environmental Science · #Allometry #Anatomy #Animal Behavior and Reproduction #Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior #Biology #Ecology #Elephant seal #Marine animal studies overview #Ontogeny #Proboscis #Sexual selection #Trait #Zoology

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