Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The disproportionate growth of a part or parts of an organism as the organism changes in size.
- noun The study of such growth.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the study of the relative growth of a part of an organism in relation to the growth of the whole.
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- noun biology The science studying the
differential growth rates of the parts of a living organism's body part or process.
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- noun the study of the relative growth of a part of an organism in relation to the growth of the whole
Etymologies
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Examples
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Ontogenetic allometry in the fang in the front-fanged Causus rhombeatus Viperidae displaces the fang along the upper jaw.
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In this study, I compare patterns of intracranial allometry and morphologic diversity between the domestic dog and wild canid species.
"Intraspecific macroevolution" within domestic dog breeds - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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Temperature-mediated transitions between isometry and allometry in a colonial, modular invertebarte.
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Tyrannosaurus Didn't Have the Nerve to Run Fast | Dinosaur Tracking positive allometry & the prehistory of sexual selection - BioBlog
Discover Blogs 2010
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Patterns of growth and allometry were similar between ponds of different hydroperiods, but considerable life history variation was derived from modulating the timing of and size at metamorphosis.
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Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium who has studied allometry, or size scaling, since graduate school.
Scientific American 2010
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Patterns of growth and allometry were similar between ponds of different hydroperiods, but considerable life history variation was derived from modulating the timing of and size at metamorphosis.
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Patterns of growth and allometry were similar between ponds of different hydroperiods, but considerable life history variation was derived from modulating the timing of and size at metamorphosis.
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Encephalization data was then used to map changes in relative brain size within specific clades (known as reconstructing a scaling allometry).
بالاترین 2009
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Placental invasiveness and brain-body allometry in eutherian mammals Cholesterol metabolism in the central nervous system during early development and in the mature animal
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
MaryW commented on the word allometry
"First, Bang and Cobb had not considered the phenomenon of allometry—the way that organs scale with body size."
Tim Birkhead, Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird (New York: Walker & Co., 2002)
October 11, 2015