The control of body and organ growth is essential for the development of adults with proper
size and proportions, which is important for survival and reproduction. In animals, adult body …

The sizes of living organisms span over 20 orders of magnitude or so. This daunting
observation could intimidate researchers aiming to understand the general mechanisms …

The control of organ size mainly relies on precise autonomous growth programs. However,
organ development is subject to random variations, called developmental noise, best …

Coordinated intra-and inter-organ growth during animal development is essential to ensure
a correctly proportioned individual. The Drosophila wing has been a valuable model system …

Organisms have evolved molecular mechanisms to ensure consistent and invariant
phenotypes in the face of environmental fluctuations. Developmental homeostasis is …

Evolutionary developmental biology (evo‐devo) is the study of the evolution of
developmental mechanisms. Here, I review some of the theories, models, and laws in evo …

In Drosophila melanogaster eight insulin-like peptides (DILP1-8) are encoded on separate
genes. These DILPs are characterized by unique spatial and temporal expression patterns …

Innate behaviors consist of a succession of genetically-hardwired motor and physiological
subprograms that can be coupled to drastic morphogenetic changes. How these integrative …

Abstract Development is a self-organized process that builds on cells and their interactions.
Cells are heterogeneous in gene expression, growth, and division; yet how development is …

The compound eyes of flies exhibit striking variation in size, which has contributed to the
adaptation of these animals to different habitats and their evolution of specialist behaviors …