Metabolic rhythms in haplorhine and strepsirrhine primates [abstract]
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Microstructural evidence from teeth and bone has recently been used to support the hypothesis that growth, metabolism, and reproduction - i.e., life history - are centrally regulated by a neuroendocrine rhythm known as the Havers-Halberg Oscillation (HHO). Many questions about HHO biology and its relationship to life history evolution remain. For example, studies have shown that body mass is a strong predictor of HHO for anthropoid primates, but it cannot explain the unusual HHO patterns of strepsirrhine primates. It is uncertain whether this results from phylogenetic differences in HHO regulation across major primate clades, or whether such differences are eliminated by application of more physiologically relevant predictor variables. This study examines Retzius line periodicity (a proxy for HHO) gathered from histological sections of haplorhine and strepsirrhine teeth to provide insight into this question.
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