The past decade has witnessed a tremendous increase in interest in polyploidy, which may
partly be related to the development of new powerful genetic and genomic tools. These have …

Aim We provide a new quantitative analysis of lizard reproductive ecology. Comparative
studies of lizard reproduction to date have usually considered life‐history components …

Simple Summary The amount of hereditary information (DNA) contained in the cell nuclei of
larger or more complex organisms is often no greater than that of smaller or simpler …

As a first approximation, whole‐body metabolic rate can be considered as the sum of
metabolic rates of constituent cells. Yet, among several current explanations of metabolic …

The genome size (C value) of eight commercially important fish species in China was
measured using flow cytometry. Chicken (Gallus domesticus) erythrocytes were used as …

Growth plate cartilage (GPC) is responsible for the growth of long bones due to
endochondral ossification, which is the main mechanism of longitudinal skeletal growth in …

Blood cell morphology and count are not uniform across species. Recently, between‐
species comparisons revealed that the size of red blood cells is associated with body size in …

Plesiosaurs are a prominent group of Mesozoic marine reptiles, belonging to the more
inclusive clades Pistosauroidea and Sauropterygia. In the Middle Triassic, the early …

An extensive research effort is devoted to the evolution of life-histories and processes
underlying the variation in adult body weight; however, in this regard, some animal taxa …

Because genomes are products of natural processes rather than “intelligent design,” all
genomes contain functional and nonfunctional parts. The fraction of the genome that has no …