Metamorphosis is induced by food absence rather than a critical weight in the solitary bee, Osmia lignaria [Developmental Biology]

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...

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