Big or fast: two strategies in the developmental control of body size

Adult body size is controlled by the mechanisms that stop growth when a species-characteristic size has been reached. The mechanisms by which size is sensed and by which this information is transduced to the growth regulating system are beginning to be understood in a few species of insects. Two rat...

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Autor principal: Nijhout, H. Frederik
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4524427/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26239356
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-015-0173-x
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description Adult body size is controlled by the mechanisms that stop growth when a species-characteristic size has been reached. The mechanisms by which size is sensed and by which this information is transduced to the growth regulating system are beginning to be understood in a few species of insects. Two rather different strategies for control have been discovered; one favors large body size and the other favors rapid development.
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spelling pubmed-45244272015-08-05 Big or fast: two strategies in the developmental control of body size Nijhout, H. Frederik BMC Biol Commentary Adult body size is controlled by the mechanisms that stop growth when a species-characteristic size has been reached. The mechanisms by which size is sensed and by which this information is transduced to the growth regulating system are beginning to be understood in a few species of insects. Two rather different strategies for control have been discovered; one favors large body size and the other favors rapid development. BioMed Central 2015-08-04 /pmc/articles/PMC4524427/ /pubmed/26239356 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-015-0173-x Text en © Nijhout. 2015 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Big or fast: two strategies in the developmental control of body size
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title_short Big or fast: two strategies in the developmental control of body size
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4524427/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26239356
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