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ectothermic
(redirected from ectothermal)

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ectothermic (kt-thûrmk) or ec·to·ther·mal (-ml) or ec·to·ther·mous (-ms)
adj.
Of or relating to an organism that regulates its body temperature largely by exchanging heat with its surrounding environment.
ectothermic [ek″to-ther´mik]
1. pertaining to or characterized by ectothermy.
2. poikilothermic.
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Low ambient temperatures slow down metabolic activity at high latitudes, and there is by now ample evidence that thermal lowering metabolic rates extends life span in ectothermal models like Caenorhabditis elegans (Van Voorhies & Ward 1999) or Drosophila melanogaster (Luckinbill 1998).
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