Fig. 3: Allometric trajectories and allometric space. | Nature Communications

Fig. 3: Allometric trajectories and allometric space.

From: Patterns of ontogenetic evolution across extant marsupials reflect different allometric pathways to ecomorphological diversity

Fig. 3

a Pooled ontogenetic allometric trajectories grouped by partition, represented by “Ameridelphia” (circle) and Australidelphia (triangle), and by dietary habit, comprising animalivory (black), herbivory (red), mycophagy (purple) and omnivory (blue) groups. b Allometric space for marsupials, with time-calibrated phylogeny projected onto species distributions. Each point in allometric space represents the ontogenetic allometric trajectory for an individual species, and shape changes along the Principal Component (PC) axes represent faster/slower than average growth for given features, noted next to arrows for PC1 and PC2. Source data are provided as a Source Data file.

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