Concomitant with faster sub-adult growth rate might be changes in timing of maturation, which may affect recruitment dynamics and productivity of the fish stocks.
In addition, genetic variants in miRNA genes may also have important roles by affecting miRNA maturation, which may affect disease susceptibility [ 8].
It is also likely that constitutional factors play a role in age at puberty, and that genetic variability in pathways that influence maturation, such as hormonal and growth factors, may affect onset of puberty and menses.
Imaging of former preterm infants for assessment of neurologic injury is typically performed within a narrow time-window near term postmenstrual age because postnatal age and maturation may differentially affect MRI indices.
Because an evolutionary change in the slope or intercept may affect maturation length at all ages, this introduces correlations between the maturation probabilities at different ages.
[34] For example, an abnormal prenatal environment of children born SGA, may alter the endocrine status and the sensitivity of the receptors for endocrine and metabolic signaling, which may affect maturation of brain and gonads.
In either case, Hsp90α may affect maturation of the client protein, Rac1, which is critical for cell migration.
Furthermore, we hypothesized that this sexual dimorphism would not be manifest in ADHD, given that observed alterations in sex-specific brain maturation patterns in ADHD may affect color perception [ 21– 23].
Evidence from previous studies indicates that individual fatty acids may affect oocyte maturation and embryonic development [ 38, 39].
Polyparasitism may also be likely to have a large impact on both the parasites and the host involved as it may affect parasite growth, maturation, reproductive success and survival along with the susceptibility, morbidity and immune response of the host (Keusch and Migasena 1982).
