Geometric biology allows us to understand the dynamics of how living things convert energy flows into mass, at all scales of biological organisation.
The size and shape (together, the ‘geometry’) of organisms ultimately determine these flows.
The Geometric Theory of Biology allows us to predict how things function, grow, and change; be they tumours, schools of fish, or whole forests.
A new study led by Dr Mariana Álvarez-Noriega has found that fish in tropical regions suffer high mortality and so optimise their fitness by diverting energy into reproduction earlier in life.
Published in PLOS Biology.
A study by recent PhD graduate Emily Richardson and supervisor Dustin Marshall found that the larvae of a filter-feeding marine worm move from being feeding generalists to specialists as they develop.
Published in Science.
Published in The Biological Bulletin.
New research suggests temperature is not the only environmental factor affecting the future energy needs of cold-blooded animals.
Published in Nature Climate Change.
Published in Ecology and Evolution.
George Jarvis and PhD supervisors Craig White and Dustin Marshall have found that the same theories predicting hermaphroditism and self-fertilisation in plants can also be applied to animals, and furthermore that strong competition among siblings for resources (or among gametes for fertilisation) may drive the evolution of hermaphroditism in both.
Published in Evolution.
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