A Caenorhabditis elegans wild type defies the temperature-size rule owing to a single nucleotide polymorphism in tra-3.

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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Main Authors: Jan E Kammenga, Agnieszka Doroszuk, Joost A G Riksen, Esther Hazendonk, Laurentiu Spiridon, Andrei-Jose Petrescu, Marcel Tijsterman, Ronald H A Plasterk, Jaap Bakker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2007-03-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1808073?pdf=render

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