The Progression Factor in Insect Growth
- 1 March 1933
- journal article
- review article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The Quarterly Review of Biology
- Vol. 8 (1) , 92-95
- https://doi.org/10.1086/394427
Abstract
A review of literature on growth of insects defending the writer''s contention that their discontinuous growth follows a geometrical progression having a common ratio of 2 for weight and [IMAGE]2 = 1.26 for length. The deviations from these ratios in the Holometabola are attributed to latent divisions or, in other words, to the omission of certain molts required by the hypothesis.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Growth and variation of the larvae of Drosophila melanogasterJournal of Experimental Zoology, 1929