Negative allometry of egg size among 29 species of drosophilid flies
Jonathan A. Rader, Mary Petersen, Dariel Cortés, Daniel Ricardo Matute
The paper examines egg size and shape evolution in 29 drosophilid species, finding negative allometry between egg size and adult body size and moderate phylogenetic signal.
bioRxiv · Mar 18, 2026 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology