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 …

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

An emerging class of theories concerning the functional structure of the brain takes the
reuse of neural circuitry for various cognitive purposes to be a central organizational …

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 …

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 …

Extensive studies of vertebrates have shown that brain size scales to body size following
power law functions. Most animals are substantially smaller than vertebrates, and extremely …

Brain evolution is hypothesized to be driven by behavioral selection on neuroarchitecture.
We developed a novel metric of relative neuroanatomical investments involved in …

Previous phylogenetic analyses of Strepsiptera have been limited to characters from only
males or first instar larvae, and by poor taxonomic sampling. This investigation is the first …

Most humans carry mites in the hair follicles of their skin for their entire lives. Follicular mites
are the only metazoans that continuously live on humans. We propose that Demodex …

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 …