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ArticleEcology and evolution2024

Using external morphology as a proxy for stomach size in

Laura S Fletcher, April M H Blakeslee, Laura C Crane, Michele F Repetto, Benjamin J Toscano, Blaine D Griffen

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Article in Ecology and evolution, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Laura S FletcherDepartment of Biology Brigham Young University Provo Utah USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0418-6047
April M H BlakesleeDepartment of Biology East Carolina University Greenville North Carolina USA.
Laura C CraneWells National Estuarine Research Reserve Wells Maine USA.
Michele F RepettoDepartment of Biology Temple University Philadelphia Pennsylvania USA.
Benjamin J ToscanoDepartment of Biology Trinity College Hartford Connecticut USA.
Blaine D GriffenDepartment of Biology Brigham Young University Provo Utah USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8126-6323

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Abstract

Stomach morphology can provide insights into an organism's diet. Gut size or length is typically inversely related to diet quality in most taxa, and has been used to assess diet quality in a variety of systems. However, it requires animal sacrifice and time-consuming dissections. Measures of external morphology associated with diet may be a simpler, more cost-effective solution. At the species level, external measures of the progastric region of the carapace in brachyuran crabs can predict stomach size and diet quality, with some suggestion that this approach may also work to examine individual diet preferences and specialization at the individual level; if so, the size of the progastric region could be used to predict trends in diet quality and consumption for individuals, which would streamline diet studies in crabs. Here, we tested whether external progastric region size predicts internal stomach size across latitude and time of year for individuals of the invasive Asian shore crab

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diet qualitygut morphologyHemigrapsus sanguineusindividual variationprogastric carapace region

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PMID38698925
PMCPMC11063776

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