Growing as slow as a turtle: Unexpected maturational differences in a small, long-lived species

• Devin Edmonds ,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: dae2@illinois.edu

  Affiliation Illinois Natural History Survey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5633-7206

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• Michael J. Dreslik,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Illinois Natural History Survey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, United States of America

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• Jeffrey E. Lovich,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation U.S. Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

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• Thomas P. Wilson,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Geology and Environmental Science, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Carl H. Ernst †

  † Deceased.

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration

  Affiliation Department of Biology, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, United States of America

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