allometric scaling
Allometric scaling of flight energetics in orchid bees: evolution of flux capacities and flux rates
... Allometric scaling of metabolic rate during hovering flight among orchid bees was first described by Casey et al. (1985; 1992). In a recent study (Darveau et al., 2005), we investigated the correlated ...
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Metabolic allometric scaling model: combining cellular transportation and heat dissipation constraints
... whose allometric exponents are then combined in order to calculate the allometric exponent for the entire ...of allometric scaling as ...
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Allometric scaling of body mass in running economy data: An important consideration in modeling marathon performance
... without allometric scaling and RER during a continuous, six-stage, incremental, sub-maximal 30 min treadmill run, beginning at 75% of 10-km race velocity and finishing at 100% of 10-km ...
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Allometric scaling of aerobic fitness outputs in school-aged pubertal girls
... with allometric scaling exponents are proposed [9, 20, ...used allometric scaling to evaluate the interrelationship among indicators of body size, composition, and parameters of aerobic ...
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Allometric scaling of flight energetics in Panamanian orchid bees: a comparative phylogenetic approach
... Flying insects achieve some of the highest rates of aerobic energy metabolism in the animal kingdom (Sacktor, 1976; Suarez, 2000). The development of asynchronous flight muscles was a major evolutionary innovation that ...
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Data from necropsy studies and in vitro tissue studies lead to a model for allometric scaling of basal metabolic rate
... BMR scaling exponent have been critically ...the scaling of BMR and of theories that predict 3/4-power scaling by stating "we find evidence that there may not be a simple scaling law for ...
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Roles of hierarchical and metabolic regulation in the allometric scaling of metabolism in Panamanian orchid bees
... examined allometric scaling patterns in greater detail, and in the context of phylogenetic relationships among species (see accompanying papers, Darveau et ...the allometric scaling of ...
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Analytic theories of allometric scaling
... the scaling exponent can assume values mostly between g and 1, depending on taxon and body mass, and that is also described by a large range of ...of allometric scaling, the fractal network theory ...
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Allometric scaling relationships of jumping performance in the striped marsh frog Limnodynastes peronii
... bias scaling relationships towards higher mass exponents (Emerson, 1978; John-Alder and Morin, ...of scaling in anurans. Finally, several of the scaling analyses were only based on small sample sizes ...
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Allometric scaling of discontinuous gas exchange patterns in the locust Locusta migratoria throughout ontogeny
... The largely conflicting results offered by the four previous studies into the allometric scaling of the DGC means we are little wiser about the potential effects body mass may have on the gas exchange ...
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Predicting food consumption and production in fish populations : allometric scaling and size structured models
... ”allometric scaling”, which refers to those regularities seen across-species that are function of individual body ...addressed allometric relationships in which the response vari- able is an ...
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Control of metabolic rate is a hidden variable in the allometric scaling of homeotherms
... observation that is compatible with the existence of control mechanisms operating to maintain such a pattern. Regarding very small mammals, it has been long recognised that some shrews maintain a body temperature and ...
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The origin of allometric scaling laws in biology from genomes to ecosystems: towards a quantitative unifying theory of biological structure and organization
... quarter-power allometric scaling laws and other features of the dynamical behaviour of biological systems reflect the constraints inherent in the generic properties of these ...
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Allometric scaling of dietary linoleic acid on changes in tissue arachidonic acid using human equivalent diets in mice
... for allometric scaling with regards to an animal diet- ary design as it relates to the relationship between dietary LA and tissue ...for allometric scaling should better equate interspecies ...
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Allometric scaling in centrarchid fish: origins of intra and inter specific variation in oxidative and glycolytic enzyme levels in muscle
... Transcriptional determinants of PK gene expression It is challenging to establish definitely the genetic mechanisms responsible for particular patterns of metabolic enzyme levels seen between animals or physiological ...
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Control of muscle bioenergetic gene expression: implications for allometric scaling relationships of glycolytic and oxidative enzymes
... Mitochondria produce the energy for steady state muscle activity, but also play important roles in resting muscle: production of energy, metabolic intermediates, heat and reactive oxygen species. Since animals spend most ...
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Allometric scaling of the maximum metabolic rate of mammals: oxygen transport from the lungs to the heart is a limiting step
... metabolic scaling, the "Allometric Cascade" model [2], is not discussed here because it is not a mech- anistic ...based scaling term for the maximum rate of blood ...the scaling of ...
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Problems of allometric scaling analysis: examples from mammalian reproductive biology
... overall scaling relationship (their residual values) and to detect grade shifts between groups of species (Martin, ...Although allometric analysis can also permit identification and subsequent ...
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Allometric scaling of the elevation of maternal energy intake during lactation
... As the surface area and the volume of animals scales to the 2/3- and to the 1-power of body mass respect- ively, the decrease in the surface area to volume ratio with increasing body mass has been proposed as a proximate ...
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Allometric scaling of mammalian metabolism
... the area of the surface over which it is dissipated. The idea that the effect of body size on metabolism might reflect simple geometric and physical processes was first suggested by Sarrus and Ramaeux in 1838 (cited by ...
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