Big or fast: two strategies in the developmental control of body size.
Abstract
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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https://hdl.handle.net/10161/10746Published Version (Please cite this version)
10.1186/s12915-015-0173-xPublication Info
(2015). Big or fast: two strategies in the developmental control of body size. BMC Biol, 13. pp. 57. 10.1186/s12915-015-0173-x. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/10746.This is constructed from limited available data and may be imprecise. To cite this
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H. Frederik Nijhout
John Franklin Crowell Distinguished Professor of Biology
Fred Nijhout is broadly interested in developmental physiology and in the interactions
between development and evolution. He has several lines of research ongoing in his
laboratory that on the surface may look independent from one another, but all share
a conceptual interest in understanding how complex traits arise through, and are affected
by, the interaction of genetic and environmental factors. 1) The control of polyphenic
development in insects. This work attempts to understand how the inse
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