Body-size evolution in Cretaceous molluscs and the status of Cope's rule

Nature ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 385 (6613) ◽  
pp. 250-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Jablonski
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
Size Evolution ◽  
The Status ◽  
Body Size Evolution ◽  
Cope’S Rule

scholarly journals Body Size Evolution in Extant Oryzomyini Rodents: Cope's Rule or Miniaturization?

PLoS ONE ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. e34654 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Avaria-Llautureo ◽  
Cristián E. Hernández ◽  
Dusan Boric-Bargetto ◽  
Cristian B. Canales-Aguirre ◽  
Bryan Morales-Pallero ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
Size Evolution ◽  
Body Size Evolution ◽  
Cope’S Rule

scholarly journals Correction: Body Size Evolution in Extant Oryzomyini Rodents: Cope's Rule or Miniaturization?

PLoS ONE ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Avaria-Llautureo ◽  
Cristián E. Hernández ◽  
Dusan Boric-Bargetto ◽  
Cristian B. Canales-Aguirre ◽  
Bryan Morales-Pallero ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
Size Evolution ◽  
Body Size Evolution ◽  
Cope’S Rule

scholarly journals Cope's rule and the adaptive landscape of dinosaur body size evolution

Palaeontology ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger B. J. Benson ◽  
Gene Hunt ◽  
Matthew T. Carrano ◽  
Nicolás Campione
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
Adaptive Landscape ◽  
Size Evolution ◽  
Body Size Evolution ◽  
Cope’S Rule

Dinosaur Macroevolution and Macroecology

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 379-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger B.J. Benson
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Body Size ◽  
Reproductive Biology ◽  
Fossil Record ◽  
Structural Diversity ◽  
Body Plan ◽  
Adaptive Landscape ◽  
Species Diversification ◽  
Size Evolution ◽  
Body Size Evolution

Dinosaurs were large-bodied land animals of the Mesozoic that gave rise to birds. They played a fundamental role in structuring Jurassic–Cretaceous ecosystems and had physiology, growth, and reproductive biology unlike those of extant animals. These features have made them targets of theoretical macroecology. Dinosaurs achieved substantial structural diversity, and their fossil record documents the evolutionary assembly of the avian body plan. Phylogeny-based research has allowed new insights into dinosaur macroevolution, including the adaptive landscape of their body size evolution, patterns of species diversification, and the origins of birds and bird-like traits. Nevertheless, much remains unknown due to incompleteness of the fossil record at both local and global scales. This presents major challenges at the frontier of paleobiological research regarding tests of macroecological hypotheses and the effects of dinosaur biology, ecology, and life history on their macroevolution.

scholarly journals The developmental and physiological basis of body size evolution in an insect

2001 ◽  
Vol 268 (1476) ◽  
pp. 1589-1593 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis J. D'Amico ◽  
Goggy Davidowitz ◽  
H. Frederik Nijhout
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
Physiological Basis ◽  
Size Evolution ◽  
Body Size Evolution
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