UH Scientists Publish Breakthrough Research on Why Colder Climates Lead to Larger Animals (IMAGE)

University of Houston

UH Scientists Publish Breakthrough Research on Why Colder Climates Lead to Larger Animals

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Armed with an industrial vacuum cleaner, Chuan-Kai Ho, a 2008 Ph.D. graduate from UH's department of biology and biochemistry, went about collecting insects from marsh vegetation along the East Coast. This was done in an effort to find a new solution to a 163-year-old puzzle explaining why animals grow bigger in the cold. His collaborators were his dissertation adviser and UH professor Steven Pennings and Thomas Carefoot from the University of British Columbia.

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Amanda Thronson

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