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Big number, big body: Jersey numbers alter body size perception.
PLoS ONE, 2023 Vision has been shown to be an active process that can be shaped by top-down influences. Here, we add to this area of research by showing a surprising example of how visual perception can be affected by cognition (i.e., cognitive penetration).
Leon T Shams +3 more
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The effect of attention on body size adaptation and body dissatisfaction
Royal Society Open Science, 2022 Attentional bias to low-fat bodies is thought to be associated with body dissatisfaction—a symptom and risk factor of eating disorders. However, the causal nature of this relationship is unclear.
T. House +3 more
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Insights into body size variation in cetaceans from the evolution of body-size-related genes
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2019 Background Cetaceans exhibit an exceptionally wide range of body size, yet in this regard, their genetic basis remains poorly explored. In this study, 20 body-size-related genes for which duplication, mutation, or deficiency can cause body size change in
Yingying Sun +6 more
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Body size perceptions and preferences favor overweight in adult Saharawi refugees
Nutrition Journal, 2018 Background Culture affects body image and body size perceptions from an early age and in many African countries, overweight has been associated with richness, health, strength, and fertility.
Desire Alice Naigaga +5 more
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Size matters: relationships between body size and body mass of common coastal, aquatic invertebrates in the Baltic Sea [PDF]
PeerJ, 2017 Background Organism biomass is one of the most important variables in ecological studies, making biomass estimations one of the most common laboratory tasks.
Johan Eklöf +6 more
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Body size and food size in freshwater zooplankton [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1984 We used double-label liquid scintillation techniques to measure the efficiencies with which eight different-sized zooplankton species ingested four cell types relative to a standard cell type ( Chlamydomonas ). Efficiency ratios (ERs: clearance rate on cell type X ÷ clearance rate on
K G, Bogdan, J J, Gilbert
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Morphometric characterization of local geese in the Valley of Kashmir
Indian Journal of Animal Sciences, 2014 An extensive study was carried out in the geese rearing areas of Kashmir Valley to record the morphometric parameters which included external body measurements and visceral measurements of local geese.
HENNA HAMADANI +5 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Body size is one of the most important traits of an organism. Among reptiles, both lizards and snakes show body size differences that span a similar six orders of magnitude variation.
Haixia Wu +3 more
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Body size determines eyespot size and presence in coral reef fishes
Ecology and Evolution, 2020 Numerous organisms display conspicuous eyespots. These eye‐like patterns have been shown to effectively reduce predation by either deflecting strikes away from nonvital organs or by intimidating potential predators.
Christopher R. Hemingson +2 more
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Body Size Mediated Coexistence in Swans
The Scientific World Journal, 2014 Differences in body sizes may create a trade-off between foraging efficiency (foraging gains/costs) and access to resources. Such a trade-off provides a potential mechanism for ecologically similar species to coexist on one resource.
Katharina A. M. Engelhardt +2 more
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