2007
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-185x.2007.00013.x
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Ecological correlates of body size in relation to cell size and cell number: patterns in flies, fish, fruits and foliage

Abstract: Body size is important to most aspects of biology and is also one of the most labile traits. Despite its importance we know remarkably little about the proximate (developmental) factors that determine body size under different circumstances. Here, I review what is known about how cell size and number contribute to phenetic and genetic variation in body size in Drosophila melanogaster, several fish, and fruits and leaves of some angiosperms. Variation in resources influences size primarily through changes in ce… Show more

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“…Outcomes can also depend on interactions between selective factors of interest, such as temperature, and those that are controlled within experiments but not controlled among them (e.g., nutrition, humidity, density). Given these sources of variation, the predictable genetic divergence in body and cell sizes between our cold and warm populations confirms that environmental temperature is a major factor generating latitudinal clines in body size and cell size of Drosophila melanogaster (Zwaan et al., 2000; reviewed by Arendt, 2007). Additionally, we now know that flies at fluctuating temperatures evolve thorax and cell sizes similar to those of flies at intermediate temperatures.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Outcomes can also depend on interactions between selective factors of interest, such as temperature, and those that are controlled within experiments but not controlled among them (e.g., nutrition, humidity, density). Given these sources of variation, the predictable genetic divergence in body and cell sizes between our cold and warm populations confirms that environmental temperature is a major factor generating latitudinal clines in body size and cell size of Drosophila melanogaster (Zwaan et al., 2000; reviewed by Arendt, 2007). Additionally, we now know that flies at fluctuating temperatures evolve thorax and cell sizes similar to those of flies at intermediate temperatures.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A provocative theory of metabolism even makes a bold and erroneous assumption that cells are of the same size in all organisms (West & Brown, 2005). Quite the opposite, cell size has varied among tissues, individuals, or species whenever biologists have focused their lenses on this subject (Arendt, 2007; Czarnoleski, Cooper, Kierat, & Angilletta, 2013; Kozłowski, Czarnołęski, François‐Krassowska, Maciak, & Pis, 2010; Stevenson, Hill, & Bryant, 1995). The variation in cell size within and among individuals of the same species poses a challenge for evolutionary biologists to explain.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Increasing temperature tends to be associated with smaller cell sizes in a variety of organisms (reviewed in [61,62]; also see [63][64][65][66][67][68]). Small cells (and organisms containing them) tend to have higher mass-specific metabolic rates than large cells (and organisms containing them) [26,[69][70][71][72][73][74][75][76][77].…”
Section: Implications Of Results For Theorymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Body size is a major fitness-related trait that contributes to successful mate selection, longevity, avoidance of predation and tolerance to heat, cold and starvation among others (for example, Roff, 1992;Schmidt-Nielsen, 1984;Stearns, 1992). Genetic and physiological studies have provided insights into the genetic basis of body size as the target of natural selection (Edgar, 2006;Arendt, 2007). Reproducible differences in body size in natural populations and different environmental factors that affect body size have been extensively studied, particularly, in Drosophila melanogaster (for example, De Jong and Bochdanovits, 2003;De Moed et al, 1999;Partridge et al, 1994;Trotta et al, 2006).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Organisms differ in size not only between species but there is also considerable variation within species because of both environmental (nutrition, temperature) and genetic factors (Edgar, 2006;Arendt, 2007). Body size is a major fitness-related trait that contributes to successful mate selection, longevity, avoidance of predation and tolerance to heat, cold and starvation among others (for example, Roff, 1992;Schmidt-Nielsen, 1984;Stearns, 1992).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%