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A STUDY of relative growth in the pistol-crab, Alpheus dentipes1, has disclosed an interesting modification of the simple heterogony law, as expressed by the relation y = bxk, where y and x are magnitudes of organ and body respectively, and b and k are constants, k representing the coefficient of growth-partition between organ and body2.
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DAWES, B., HUXLEY, J. Rapid Growth-Rate and Diminishing Heterogony. Nature 133, 982–983 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133982b0
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