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Oxygen hypothesis of polar gigantism not supported by performance of Antarctic pycnogonids in hypoxia Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2009
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Compared to temperate and tropical relatives, some high-latitude marine species are large-bodied, a phenomenon known as polar gigantism. A leading hypothesis on the physiological basis of gigantism … posits that, in polar water…