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A Quantitative Analysis of Growth and Size Regulation in Manduca sexta: The Physiological Basis of Variation in Size and Age at Metamorphosis.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2015
Grunert Laura W, Clarke Jameson W, Ahuja Chaarushi, Eswaran Harish, Nijhout H Frederik
Abstract excerpt
Body size and development time are important life history traits because they are often highly correlated with fitness. Although the developmental mechanisms that control growth have been well studied, the mechanisms that control how a species-characteristic body size is achieved remain poorly understood. In insects adult body size is determined by the number of larval molts, the size increment at each molt, and...
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