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Environmental and biotic controls on the evolutionary history of insect body size

Giant insects, with wingspans as large as 70 cm, ruled the Carboniferous and Permian skies. Gigantism has been linked to hyperoxic conditions because oxygen concentration is a key physiological control on body size, particularly in groups like flying insects that have high metabolic oxygen demands....

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Main Authors: Clapham, Matthew E., Karr, Jered A.
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: National Academy of Sciences 2012
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3390886/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22665762
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1204026109
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