Miniaturization leads to considerable reorganization of structures in insects, affecting almost
all organs and tissues. In the smallest insects, comparable in size to unicellular organisms …

The developmental mechanisms that control body size and the relative sizes of body parts
are today best understood in insects. Size is controlled by the mechanisms that cause …

The smallest insects are comparable in size to unicellular organisms. Thus, their size affects
their structure not only at the organ level, but also at the cellular level. Here we report the first …

Miniaturized species have evolved in many animal lineages, including insects and
vertebrates. Consequently, their nervous systems are constrained to fit within tiny volumes …

We use a recent wave of data to confirm that Haller's rule of brain–body allometry, for
smaller species to have relatively larger brains, holds for invertebrates as well as …

All organisms are subject to large amounts of genetic and environmental variation and have
evolved mechanisms that allow them to function well in spite of these challenges. This …

The study of the influence of body size on structure in animals, as well as scaling of organs,
is one of the key areas of functional and evolutionary morphology of organisms. Most studies …

Tiny flying insects, such as Drosophila melanogaster, fly by flapping their wings at
frequencies faster than their brains are able to process. To do so, they rely on self …

The body size, especially in cases of extreme reduction, is an important characteristic that
strongly determines the morphology, physiology, and biology of animals. Miniaturization is a …

Allometric studies of the gross neuroanatomy of adults from nine species of spiders from six
web-weaving families (Orbicularia), and nymphs from six of these species, show that very …