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A Caenorhabditis elegans Wild Type Defies the Temperature–Size Rule Owing to a Single Nucleotide Polymorphism in tra-3

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 t...

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Autores principales: Kammenga, Jan E, Doroszuk, Agnieszka, Riksen, Joost A. G, Hazendonk, Esther, Spiridon, Laurentiu, Petrescu, Andrei-Jose, Tijsterman, Marcel, Plasterk, Ronald H. A, Bakker, Jaap
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1808073/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17335351
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.0030034