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BERGMANN SIZE CLINES: A SIMPLE EXPLANATION FOR THEIR OCCURRENCE IN ECTOTHERMS
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In general ectothermic organisms grow larger at both lower temperatures and higher latitudes. Adult size in the soil nematode Caenorhabditis elegans reared at 10°C was approximately 33% greater than worms grown at 25°C. Nematode egg size and fish red blood cell size showed similar size increases at lower temperatures. These results indicate that body size differences in many ectotherms may simply be a consequence of developmental processes that cause cells to grow larger at lower temperatures. This would provide a general explanation for the increased size of ectotherms at lower temperatures independent of species-specific ecology.
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- Van Voorhies, W. A.
- Venue
- Evolution
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 1996-06
- Volume
- 50
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 1259-1264
- ISSN
- 0014-3820 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2314315564
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- 306
- References
- 2
- FWCI
- 8.69
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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