Sentences with phrase «constraint on body size»
Because diffusion becomes less efficient as the tubes get longer, the atmospheric concentration of oxygen is a powerful constraint on body size, especially for active insects that fly.
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We performed artificial selection on the allometry between forewing area and body size in a butterfly to test for developmental constraints, and then used the resultant increased range of phenotypic variation to quantify natural selection on the scaling relationship.