Savageau M A
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1979 Dec;76(12):6023-5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.76.12.6023.
Allometric morphogenesis is the generation of form or pattern as a result of differential growth according to power-law relationships among the elements of a complex system. This phenomenon has been noted in a variety of fields for many years, in some cases for centuries, and yet it has never been related to the underlying determinants of the systems. By starting with fundamental properties of the component mechanisms in such systems, one can derive a basic growth equation from which the well-known law of allometric morphogenesis follows naturally.
异速形态发生是指由于复杂系统各元素之间的幂律关系导致的差异生长而产生的形态或模式。多年来,在许多领域都注意到了这种现象,在某些情况下已有数百年之久,但它从未与系统的潜在决定因素联系起来。通过从这类系统中组成机制的基本特性入手,可以推导出一个基本生长方程,从该方程中自然可以得出著名的异速形态发生定律。