body size
Body size is not critical for critical PO2 in scarabaeid and tenebrionid beetles
... maximal body size, there is a large and growing body of evidence that insect body size is constrained by tracheal oxygen delivery (Harrison et ...insect body size because ...
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Heritability and selection on body size in a natural population of Drosophila buzzatii.
... An attempt was made to assess whether the phenotypic differences in body size (as measured by wing length) between wild-caught mating and single Drosophila buzzatii ma[r] ...
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Body size phenotypes and cardiometabolic risk in Rheumatoid Arthritis
... different body-size and metabolic phenotypes. Body Mass Index alone is not a sufficient indicator of cardiometabolic risk in RA; this may have significant implications in their CVD risk ...
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Visual attention mediates the relationship between body satisfaction and susceptibility to the body size adaptation effect
... of body satisfaction have been found to pay more attention to images of thin ...of body satisfaction on the direc- tion and magnitude of the body fat adaptation effect, mediated via visual attention ...
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The effects of body size and orientation on ultraviolet radiation exposure
... Research into the UV induced effects on humans requires measurement of personal UV exposure. A number of studies have employed UV dosimeters to investigate the UV radiation exposures to selected sites on rotating ...
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Evidence for benthic body size miniaturization in the deep sea
... in body size structure between contrasting habitats and perhaps the most obvious one in the analysis of benthic communities is that of sediment grain size ...the size-distributions of infaunal ...
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Hydrodynamic drag of diving birds: effects of body size, body shape and feathers at steady speeds
... by body size and shape, so such differences among species should affect energy ...the body is complicated by the roughness and vibration of feathers, feathers must be considered in evaluating the ...
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Body size in early life and risk of breast cancer
... adult body size, mostly measured as body mass index (BMI), increases risk of breast cancer among post- menopausal women [1–3]; and conversely, decreases the risk among premenopausal women [1, ...
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Investigating and modelling the body size structure of benthic communities
... the body size structure of benthic infaunal communities by constructing biomass and abundance size spectra for three environmentally contrasting ...The size distributions are used to ...
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Consumer-resource body-size relationships in natural food webs
... the body sizes are averaged over the trophically interacting populations, but size-structured interactions may affect our ...In size-structured populations, if only large consumer individuals consume ...
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Body size evolution in mammals: complexity in tempo and mode
... Carnivora body size at higher latitudes in the Northern ...the body-mass distributions of species at low and high ...whole size spectrum (Rosenzweig ...median body-mass of species ...
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Temperature, Body Size and Life History in Drosophila melanogaster
... manipulate body size by artificial ...manipulating body size by selecting for increased and decreased wing area (McCabe and Partridge ...cell size was kept constant, in accordance with ...
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Body size and community structure in British Pleistocene mammals
... f body size variation in the ungulates and large carnivores o f the British Middle and Late Pleistocene ...the body sizes o f their members. Body size analysis has been carried out ...
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Effects of body size on the oxygen sensitivity of dragonfly flight
... Smaller body sizes may be adaptive as a result of competition with or predation by birds, reptiles and mammals (Damuth, 1981; Blackburn and Gaston, 1994; Clapham and Karr, ...insect size may ...upper ...
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Field metabolic rate and body size
... Classes, body size is the major determinant of daily energy and food requirements, accounting for about 95% of the variation present in currently available ...and body mass ...
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SELECTION FOR SMALL AND LARGE BODY SIZE IN THE HOUSE MOUSE
... The relative growth, or allometric constants are such that selection for greater body size will automatically produce mice with relatively smaller appendages, and this without [r] ...
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Spontaneous Mutational Variation for Body Size in Caenorhabditis elegans
... for body size in two independent sets of ...mean body size by ...on size was estimated to be ...increase body size was estimated by maximum likelihood to be no more than ...
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The Associations of Body Size and Body Composition With Left Ventricular Mass: Impacts for Indexation in Adults
... to body size. The indexation to body surface area is very common (23,24), but it has been criticized for disregarding the effects of obesity ...to body height was proposed ...of body ...
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Body size, energy metabolism and lifespan
... the body ‘wearing out’ gained widespread ...of body size, and that the larger animals also lived ...of body size (if data for humans was excluded from the ...in body mass between ...
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Correlation between Leukocyte Numbers and Body Size of Rainbow Trout
... the size of the leukocyte population increases exponentially with body size of rainbow ...mean body weight of 2 - 4 g (group I), 4 - 6 g (group II), 25 - 30 g (group III), and 650 - 780 g ...
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