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Atmospheric Hypoxia Limits Selection for Large Body Size in Insects
BACKGROUND: The correlations between Phanerozoic atmospheric oxygen fluctuations and insect body size suggest that higher oxygen levels facilitate the evolution of larger size in insects. METHODS AND PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: Testing this hypothesis we selected Drosophila melanogaster for large size in th...
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| Format: | Artigo |
| Language: | Inglês |
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Public Library of Science
2009
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| Online Access: | https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2606028/ https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19127286 https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0003876 |
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