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Room to breathe: Nutrition and developmental oxygen modulate the crowding effect on size in Drosophila melanogaster
Cole M Nicholls, Alexander W. Shingleton
This study investigates how nutrition and oxygen affect body size in Drosophila melanogaster under crowding conditions, finding that nutrition explains most variation while oxygen also contributes in a sex- and nutrition-dependent manner.
DOI 10.64898/2026.07.02.736161