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A Caenorhabditis elegans wild type defies the temperature-size rule owing to a single nucleotide polymorphism in tra-3.
PLoS genetics - 2 Mar 2007
Kammenga Jan E, Doroszuk Agnieszka, Riksen Joost A G, Hazendonk Esther, Spiridon Laurentiu, Petrescu Andrei-Jose, Tijsterman Marcel, Plasterk Ronald H A, Bakker Jaap
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Ectotherms rely for their body heat on surrounding temperatures. A key question in biology is why most ectotherms mature at a larger size at lower temperatures, a phenomenon known as the temperature-size rule. Since temperature affects virtually all processes in a living organism, current theories to explain this phenomenon are diverse and complex and assert often from opposing assumptions. Although widely...
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