Collection
Size and Shape
- Submission status
- Closed
This Topical Collection will be a permanent feature of the journal Development Genes and Evolution and will publish original articles, perspectives and review papers dealing with all aspects of the study of biological size and shape.
Editors
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Nico Posnien
Georg-August-University Göttingen, Johann-Friedrich-Blumenbach Institute for Zoology and Anthropology, Department of Developmental Biology, Göttingen, Germany
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Nikola-Michael Prpic
Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Institute of Zoology and Zoological Systematics, Germany
Articles (13 in this collection)
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The evolution of relative trait size and shape: insights from the genitalia of dung beetles
Authors
- Harald F. Parzer
- P. David Polly
- Armin P. Moczek
- Content type: Original Article
- Published: 08 February 2018
- Pages: 83 - 93
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Craniofacial shape transition across the house mouse hybrid zone: implications for the genetic architecture and evolution of between-species differences
Authors
- Luisa F. Pallares
- Leslie M. Turner
- Diethard Tautz
- Content type: Original Article
- Open Access
- Published: 23 May 2016
- Pages: 173 - 186
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Cellular and molecular drivers of differential organ growth: insights from the limbs of Monodelphis domestica
Authors (first, second and last of 6)
- Anna Dowling
- Carolyn Doroba
- Karen E. Sears
- Content type: Original Article
- Published: 18 May 2016
- Pages: 235 - 243
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Multivariate heritability of shape in June sucker (Chasmistes liorus) and Utah sucker (Catostomus ardens): shape as a functional trait for discriminating closely related species
Authors
- Mark C. Belk
- G. Bruce Schaalje
- Content type: Original Article
- Published: 30 April 2016
- Pages: 197 - 207
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Size relationships of different body parts in the three dipteran species Drosophila melanogaster, Ceratitis capitata and Musca domestica
Authors
- Natalia Siomava
- Ernst A. Wimmer
- Nico Posnien
- Content type: Original Article
- Published: 26 April 2016
- Pages: 245 - 256
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The insect central complex as model for heterochronic brain development—background, concepts, and tools
Authors (first, second and last of 10)
- Nikolaus Dieter Bernhard Koniszewski
- Martin Kollmann
- Gregor Bucher
- Content type: Review
- Open Access
- Published: 07 April 2016
- Pages: 209 - 219
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Size, shape, and form: concepts of allometry in geometric morphometrics
Authors
- Christian Peter Klingenberg
- Content type: Review
- Open Access
- Published: 01 April 2016
- Pages: 113 - 137
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The sex-limited effects of mutations in the EGFR and TGF-β signaling pathways on shape and size sexual dimorphism and allometry in the Drosophila wing
Authors
- Nicholas D. Testa
- Ian Dworkin
- Content type: Original Article
- Published: 01 April 2016
- Pages: 159 - 171
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Toward a study of gene regulatory constraints to morphological evolution of the Drosophila ocellar region
Authors (first, second and last of 4)
- Daniel Aguilar-Hidalgo
- David Becerra-Alonso
- Fernando Casares
- Content type: Original Article
- Open Access
- Published: 01 April 2016
- Pages: 221 - 233
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Measurement error in geometric morphometrics
Authors
- Carmelo Fruciano
- Content type: Review
- Published: 01 April 2016
- Pages: 139 - 158
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Modularity and developmental stability in segmented animals: variation in translational asymmetry in geophilomorph centipedes
Authors (first, second and last of 5)
- Yoland Savriama
- Marco Vitulo
- Giuseppe Fusco
- Content type: Original Article
- Published: 01 April 2016
- Pages: 187 - 196
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Size and shape—integration of morphometrics, mathematical modelling, developmental and evolutionary biology
Authors
- Nikola-Michael Prpic
- Nico Posnien
- Content type: Editorial
- Published: 31 March 2016
- Pages: 109 - 112