ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2017
Metamorphosis is induced by food absence rather than a critical weight in the solitary bee,
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Abstract
Body size is an important phenotypic trait that correlates with performance and fitness. For determinate growing insects, body size variation is determined by growth rate and the mechanisms that stop growth at the end of juvenile growth. Endocrine mechanisms regulate growth cessation, and their relative timing along development shapes phenotypic variation in body size and development time. Larval insects are generally hypothesized to initiate metamorphosis once they attain a critical weight. However, the mechanisms underlying the critical weight have not been resolved even for well-studied insect species. More importantly, critical weights may or may not be generalizable across species. In this study, we characterized the developmental aspects of size regulation in the solitary bee,
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