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Article: Effects of early growth conditions on body composition, allometry, and survival in the ladybird beetle Harmonia axyridis.(Report)
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- Canadian Journal of Zoology
- Article date:
- February 1, 2009
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Introduction
Poor juvenile growth conditions typically lead to delayed maturation at a smaller body (Berrigan and Charnov 1994; Day and Rowe 2002). Growth conditions may additionally affect body shape and composition independent of changes in overall size. For example, it is commonly observed that body condition is preserved at the cost of skeletal size in fish reared at low food (e.g., Ali et al. 2003), while in some insects growth in structural size preceded gains in mass following periods of low food (e.g., Strobbe and Stoks 2004; Dmitriew and Rowe 2005). Stress during development may also result in changes in body size with respect to the scaling ...
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