From:
sukiec@optonline.net
Date: 2006-07-18 22:37:31 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] RE: Update on the midget ferret.
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
I know that after the early announcement about a PLOS Bio article one of the addies tends to work long-time but the other does not, so I will give both URLs:
<http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10%2E1371%2Fjournal%2Epbio%2E0040251>
or
<http://biology.plosjournals.org/archive/1545-7885/4/8/pdf/10.1371_journal.pbio.0040251-p-S.pdf>
It struck me as an interesting article on how a "catch-up" in growth after early nutritional deprivation may be less desirable than staying small after a deprivation. Since we don't know if these very small kits are just genetically small, or if they might have something (which could include a possibility of not processing some nutrients well) which is imposing the small size.
If you need to find it (should neither URL work) This quick summary will help (title, authors, beginning of abstract...):
>Compensatory Growth Impairs Adult Cognitive Performance
>Michael O. Fisher, Ruedi G. Nager, Pat Monaghan
>Division of Environmental Evolutionary Biology, Institute of
>Biomedical and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow,
>United Kingdom
>Several studies have demonstrated that poor early nutrition,
>followed by growth compensation, can have negative
>consequences later in life. However, it remains unclear
>whether this is attributable to the nutritional deficit itself or a
>cost of compensatory growth. This distinction is important to
>our understanding both of the proximate and ultimate
>factors that shape growth trajectories and of how best to
>manage growth in our own and other species following low
>birth weight...
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