2011
DOI: 10.1016/j.asd.2011.07.002
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The allometry of CNS size and consequences of miniaturization in orb-weaving and cleptoparasitic spiders

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“…According to Haller's Rule, it is expected that the brain of smaller animals must be larger relative to their body size than are the brains of larger animals. This pattern is common for both vertebrates and invertebrates (Hanken, 1983;Quesada et al, 2011;Seid et al, 2011), and is related to a negative allometric growth between brain and body. Our results show that this pattern also occurs in loricariid catfishes, primarily when we consider the relative widths of the brain and head.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 98%
“…According to Haller's Rule, it is expected that the brain of smaller animals must be larger relative to their body size than are the brains of larger animals. This pattern is common for both vertebrates and invertebrates (Hanken, 1983;Quesada et al, 2011;Seid et al, 2011), and is related to a negative allometric growth between brain and body. Our results show that this pattern also occurs in loricariid catfishes, primarily when we consider the relative widths of the brain and head.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 98%
“…However, three experimental studies comparing early instar juveniles and adults of four species of orb-web spiders fail to provide any support for this hypothesis (Eberhard, 2007;Hesselberg, 2010;Eberhard, 2011). Although this can partly be explained by early instar spiders enlarging their central nervous system by expanding it into their legs (Quesada et al, 2011), the failure to find any kind of behavioural differences, and the findings that other non-web-building kleptoparasitic spiders show a similar brain enlargement in early instars (Quesada et al, 2011) supports the conclusion from the neurophysiological studies that webbuilding behaviour is achieved by following relatively simple rules based on guidance from previously laid threads (Peters, 1939;Zschokke, 1993;Eberhard and Hesselberg, 2012). This is further supported by computer models of web-building behaviour that while following a few simple rules successfully simulate completed webs built by both normal spiders (Krink and Vollrath, 1998) and by spiders with shorter regenerated front legs (Krink and Vollrath, 1999).…”
Section: The Spider Brain and Behavioural Limitationsmentioning
confidence: 89%
“…Recently there has been a renewed interest in the otherwise neglected area of spider neurophysiology with a number of anatomical studies on brain size and structure (Quesada et al, 2011;Park et al, 2013). Similar methods could be used to compare structures in the supraesophageal ganglion between spiders with extensive site exploration to spiders with hardly any, such as the Darwin's bark spider (Gregoric et al, 2011), in order to estimate the possible computational requirements of the behaviour.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Респира торная система упрощается или отсутствует также у многих ногохвосток [50]. Увеличение относитель ного объема ЦНС и мозга, уменьшение размера нейронов и смещение части ганглиев в коксаль ную зону, описанные у миниатюрных пауков [51], также наблюдаются и у микронасекомых.…”
Section: особенности строения насекомых связанные с миниатюризациейunclassified