From Virginia Beach, Va., at a meeting of the American Physiological Society
The size to which insects grow is limited by how much oxygen they can route to tissues in their legs, new airway measurements suggest.
The researcher knew that some insects grow particularly large when reared in high-oxygen laboratories and that massive insects that lived during the prehistoric Paleozoic period vanished.
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