Congrats https://www.lumilamenendez.com/ on the publication of Behaviour in Our #Bones!
@brenenwynd , co author of
Including Distorted Specimens in #Allometric Studies: Linear Mixed Models Account for Deformation
Wynd, Uyeda, & Nesbitt
https://doi.org/10.1093/iob/obab017
you may just want this on your booklist. 👍#paleontogy #fossils #Paleobiology #science #biologist #scientist

"An example of the limitations of #interspecific patterns in #scaling studies is that they remain unconnected from the primary assumption that there is #StabilizingSelection for a constant #allometric #exponent of ¾ and #NaturalSelection acts within populations, not between species."

Broad variability but a moderate plasticity in the #allometric exponents were also observed across genotypes and environments. #Exponents were impacted by water deficit, but not temperature. #Genotypes that deviated from #MST predictions exhibited more plasticity in trait-size relationships than genotypes that followed #MST predictions.