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Starvation stress is reflected in changes in thermal response but the differences in oxygen consumption are not pronounced.
On the first day of the experiment the Q10 values decrease with increasing weight but increase with increasing temperature at all temperatures studied. On the fourteenth and the twenty-first day of starvation Q10 values increase with increasing body weight between 25° and 30° C. but between 30° and 35° C. decrease with size.
Theb values on the fourteenth day of starvation are intermediate between surface area dependence and weight dependence at all temperatures (0·87, 0·98 and 0·86) and surface area dependent on the twenty-first day of the experiment at all temperatures (0·67, 0·57 and 0·61).
The decrease in weight is progressive but negligible.
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Rajabai, K.G. Studies on the oxygen consumption in tropical poikilotherms. Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. 58, 207–214 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03051940
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03051940