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Grow with care: body size is a signal of status in strategic growth
This study demonstrates that in the annelid *Ophryotrocha puerilis*, subordinate individuals strategically modulate their growth rates based on the size gap with dominants to regulate social hierarchy and minimize reproductive conflict, thereby using body size as a dynamic signal of status.
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