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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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Main Authors: Klok, C. Jaco, Harrison, Jon F.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 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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