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Increased Growth and Life-span with Lowered Ambient Temperature in the Annual Fish, Cynolebias adloffi

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FROM observations based primarily on natural populations, Bourlière1 was able to present evidence that lowered environmental temperatures slow the rate of growth and prolong the life-span of various fishes, amphibians and reptiles. No experiments, however, have been carried out to test the effect of ambient temperatures on both growth rate and life-span in poikilothermic vertebrates under controlled laboratory conditions. For such experiments it is desirable to have populations of short-lived animals which show senescence, and thus “annual” fishes would be suitable test subjects2.

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  1. Department of Zoology, University of California,

    ROBERT K. LIU & ROY L. WALFORD

  2. Department of Pathology, University of California School of Medicine, Los Angeles

    ROBERT K. LIU & ROY L. WALFORD

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LIU, R., WALFORD, R. Increased Growth and Life-span with Lowered Ambient Temperature in the Annual Fish, Cynolebias adloffi. Nature 212, 1277–1278 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/2121277a0

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