Report for: Big or fast: two strategies in the developmental control of body size

Title	Big or fast: two strategies in the developmental control of body size
Published in	BMC Biology, August 2015
DOI	10.1186/s12915-015-0173-x
Pubmed ID	26239356
Authors	H. Frederik Nijhout
Abstract	Adult body size is controlled by the mechanisms that stop growth when a species-characteristic size has been reached. The mechanisms by which size is sensed and by which this information is transduced to the growth regulating system are beginning to be understood in a few species of insects. Two rather different strategies for control have been discovered; one favors large body size and the other favors rapid development.

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Big or fast: two strategies in the developmental control of body size