Miniaturisation effects in larvae and adults of Mikado sp. (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae), one of the smallest free-living insects

Arthropod Structure and Development

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 247-270

  Polilov, Alexey A ^a,b   Beutel, Rolf G ^b  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

3D reconstruction; Anatomy; Development; Miniaturisation; Ptiliidae; Volume

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; BEETLES; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LARVA; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, ANATOMIC; TIME FACTORS;

COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; PTILIIDAE; STAPHYLINIDAE;

EID: 60749110311     PISSN: 14678039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asd.2008.11.003     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Alexander, R.M., 1996. Biophysical problems of small size in vertebrates. In: Miller P.J. (Ed.), Miniature Vertebrates. The Implications of Small Body Size. The Proceedings of a Symposium Held at the Zoological Society of London on 11th and 12th November 1994. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 3-14.
2. Beutel R.G., and Haas F. Phylogenetic relationships of the suborders of Coleoptera (Insecta). Cladistics 16 (2000) 103-141
3. Beutel R.G., and Hörnschemeyer T. Larval morphology and phylogenetic position of Micromalthus debilis LeConte (Coleoptera: Micromalthidae). Systematic Entomology 27 (2002) 169-190
4. Beutel R.G., Maddison D.R., and Haas A. Phylogenetic analysis of Myxophaga (Coleoptera) using larval characters. Systematic Entomology 24 (1999) 1-23
5. Beutel R.G., Pohl H., and Hünefeld F. Strepsipteran brains and effects of minia-turization (Insecta). Arthropod Structure and Development 34 (2005) 301-313
6. Chetverikov S.S. Main factor of insect evolution. News of Moscow Entomological Society 1 (1915) 14-24
7. Crome W. Zur Morphologie und Anatomie der Larve von Oryctes nasicornis L. (Coleoptera: Dynastidae). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift (N.F.) 4 (1957) 228-262
8. De Marzo L. Osservationi anatomiche sui genitali interni maschili in alcuni ptilidi (Coleoptera). Entomologica, Bari 37 (1992) 107-115
9. Dybas H.S. Evidence for parthenogenesis in the featherwing beetles, with a taxonomic review of a new genus and eight new species (Coleoptera: ptiliidae). Fieldiana: Zoology 28 (1966) 11-52
10. Dybas H.S. The larval characters of featherwing and limulodid beetles and their family relationships in the Staphylinoidea (Coleoptera: ptiliidae and Limulodidae). Fieldiana: Zoology 70 (1976) 29-78
11. Dybas L.K., and Dybas H.S. Coadaptation and taxanomic differentiation of sperm and spermathecae in featherwing beetles. Evolution 35 (1981) 168-174
12. Dybas L.K., and Dybas H.S. Ultrastructure of mature spermatozoa of a minute featherwing beetle from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Ptiliidae: Bambara). Journal of Morphology 191 (1987) 63-76
13. Faisal A.A., White J.A., and Laughlin S.B. Ion-channel noise places limits on the miniaturizartion of the brain's wiring. Current Biology 15 (2005) 1143-1149
14. Garcia-Barros E. Body size, egg size, and their interspecific relationship with ecological and life history traits in butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea, Hesperioidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 70 (2000) 251-284
15. Garcia-Barros E. Taxonomic patterns in the egg to body size allomentary of butterflies and skippers (Papilionoidea & Hesperiidae). Nota Lepidopterologica 25 (2002) 161-175
16. Grebennikov V.V. How small you can go: factors limiting body miniaturization in winged insects with a review of the pantropical genus Discheramocephalus and description of six new species of the smallest beetles (Pterygota: Coleoptera: Ptiliidae). European Journal of Entomology 105 (2008) 313-328
17. Grebennikov V.V., and Beutel R.G. Morphology of the minute larva of Ptinella tenella, with special reference to effects of miniaturisation and the systematic position of Ptiliidae (Coleoptera: Staphylinoidea). Arthropod Structure and Development 31 (2002) 157-172
18. Gorodkov K.B. Oligomerization and evolution of the morphological structure systems. 2. Oligomerization and body size decrease. Zoologicheskiy Zhurnal 63 (1984) 1765-1778 (in Russian)
19. Hall E.W. Generic revision of the tribe Nanosellini (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae: Ptiliinae). Transaction of American Entomological Society 125 (1999) 39-126
20. Hanken J. Miniaturization and its effects on cranial morphology in plethodontid salamanders, genus Thorius (Amphibia, Plethodontidae): II. The fate of the brain and sense organs and their role in skull morphogenesis and evolution. Journal of Morphology 177 (1983) 255-268
21. Hanken J. Adaptation of bone growth to miniaturization of body size. In: Hall B.K. (Ed). Bone, Vol. 7: Bone Growth - B (1983), CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 79-104
22. Hanken J. Morphological novelty in the limb skeleton accompanies miniaturization in Salamanders. Science 229 (1985) 871-874
23. Hanken J., and Wake D.B. Miniaturization of body size: organismal consequences and evolutionary constraints. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 24 (1993) 501-519
24. Ivanova-Kazas O.M. Essays on the Comparative Embryology of Hymenoptera (1961), Leningrad University Press, Leningrad p. 266 (in Russian)
25. Kaas J.H. Why is brain size so important: design problems and solutions as neocortex gets bigger or smaller. Brain and Mind 1 (2000) 7-23
26. Kéler S.V. Entomologisches Wörterbuch (1963), Akademieverlag, Berlin
27. Larsén O. On the morphology and function of locomotor organs of the Gyrinidae and other Coleoptera. Opuscula Entomologica (Supplementum) 30 (1966) 1-241
28. Pohl H. Die Primärlarven der Fächerflügler-evolutive Trends (Insecta, Strepsiptera). Kaupia 10 (2000) 1-144
29. Polilov A.A. Anatomy of the feather-winged beetles Acrotrichis montandoni and Ptilium myrmecophilum (Coleoptera, Ptiliidae). Entomological Review 85 5 (2005) 467-475
30. Polilov A.A. Miniaturization-related structural features of Mymaridae. Studies on Hymenopterous Insect (2007), KMK, Moscow pp. 50-64 (in Russian)
31. Polilov A.A. Anatomy of the smallest of the Coleoptera, Feather-winged beetles from tribe Nanosellini (Coleoptera, Ptiliidae) and limits to insect minia-turization. Entomological review 88 1 (2008) 26-33
32. Rensch B. Histological changes correlated with evolutionary changes of body size. Evolution 2 (1948) 218-230
33. Roth G., Rottluff B., and Linke R. Miniaturization, genome size and the origin of functional constraints in the visual system of salamanders. Naturwissenschaften 75 (1988) 297-304
34. Roth G., Rottluff B., Grunwald W., Hanken J., and Linke R. Miniaturization in plethodontid salamanders (Caudata Plethodontidae) and its consequences for the brain and visual system. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 40 2 (1990) 165-190
35. Roth G., Blanke J., and Wake D.B. Cell size predicts morphological complexity in the brains of frogs and salamanders. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 91 (1994) 4796-4800
36. Roth G., Rottluff B., Blanke J., and Ohle M. Brain size and morphology in miniaturized plethodontid salamanders. Brain, Behavior and Evolution 45 2 (1995) 84-95
37. Roth G., Nishikawa K.C., and Wake D.B. Genome size, secondary simplification, and the evolution of the brain in salamanders. Brain. Behavior and Evolution 50 (1997) 50-59
38. Schmidt-Nielsen K. Scaling: Why is Animal Size So Important? (1984), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge p. 256
39. Sörensson M. Morphological and taxonomical novelties in the world's smallest beetles, and the first old world record of Nanosellini (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae). Systematic Entomology 22 (1997) 257-283
40. Speyer W. Die Muskulatur der Larve von Dytiscus marginalis L. Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis des Insektenkörpers. Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie 119 (1922) 423-492
41. Sylvere A.P., and Stein-Margolina V.V. Tetrapodili - Fore-legs Mites. Electron-microscopic Anatomy, Evolution Problems and Mutual Relations with Plants Pathogenic Organisms (1976), Valgus, Tallin p. 165
42. Yeh J. The effect of miniaturized body size on skeletal morphology in frogs. Evolution 56 (2002) 628-641