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'Children and other vertebrate animals stunted due to malnutrition can compensate for this deficit by resuming growth at a higher-than-normal rate via a still ill-defined mechanism. High mortality and adverse effects later in life may offset the positive effects of catch-up growth. Here we report that the invertebrate Drosophila melanogaster also experiences catch-up growth following a period of starvation, and the relaxin receptor Lgr4 instigates this catch-up growth.'
@cyrilpedia For some reason, I am deeply amused by the opening five words of this paper, "Children and other vertebrate animals".
@mike I suspect they were carefully chosen.
@cyrilpedia I would like to think so!
@cyrilpedia interesting. In my experience, zebrafish that are malnourished or kept too densely as young larvae never fully catch up.