蚊の体サイズと諸機能との関連性についての考察

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Body size is the most apparent aspect of an organism's life history and an important selective agent underlying the overall physiology of mosquitoes and as such, our knowledge of them. Although it has a genetic basis, most expressed sizes result not only from the interplay between the genome and larval history, but also from microcosm scaling in particular food allocation. Size variations together with long-growing controversies owing to variable approaches, are increasingly being noted in the literature and this has even led some to sound a note of warning about this parameter. Here, we provide background for, and an entry into the voluminous literature on body size. We dealt with: (1) the importance of size in mosquito physiology, (2) natural and anthropogenic determinants of size, (3) production and assessment of size and (4) controversies related to assessment methodology.
2006-06-30