metabolic scaling
Metabolic scaling in modular animals
... whole-organism metabolic allometry most often considered is that, as organisms grow larger, the volume (hence mass) of cells liberat- ing energy from food resources increases faster than the surface area across ...
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Form and metabolic scaling in colonial animals
... Modular organisation, colony form and metabolic scaling As predicted by the DEB model (White et al., 2011) for two- dimensional organisms, colony size scaled isometrically with respiration rate in both C. ...
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Shape shifting predicts ontogenetic changes in metabolic scaling in diverse aquatic invertebrates
... ontogenetic scaling of both metabolic rate and SA with body mass in squids (cephalopods), which have closed circulatory systems, is also consistent with SA theory, but not with RTN ...the metabolic ...
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Are the surface areas of the gills and body involved with changing metabolic scaling with temperature?
... the scaling exponents of those parameters were ...the scaling exponent of RMR of the goldfish (Huang et ...the metabolic scaling exponent of the goldfish and how temperature affects its ...
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Multi level regulation and metabolic scaling
... a metabolic rate much less than that of a unit mass of ...allometric scaling of metabolic rates?’ is one that is inextricably linked to the question ‘what determines metabolic rates?’ This is ...
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Global and regional brain metabolic scaling and its functional consequences
... the scaling exponent of total brain metabolism on brain volume is the synaptic ...cerebral metabolic scaling (Table ...cerebral metabolic rate ...
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A critical understanding of the fractal model of metabolic scaling
... the metabolic scaling research program once ...a scaling exponent only if provisos of linear scaling of fluid and of a regular fractal are ...
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Intraspecific metabolic scaling exponent depends on red blood cell size in fishes
... and scaling exponent results of crucian carp and grass carp (Huang et ...on metabolic scaling, though the species are closely ...size, metabolic level and scaling exponent of MR; (2) ...
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Metabolic scaling associated with unusual size changes during larval development of the frog, Pseudis paradoxus
... meet metabolic demands in developing tadpoles has long been controversial; while cutaneous respiration provides 60% or more of overall oxygen uptake in anuran larvae, air breathing does not seem to be essential ...
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The influence of oxygen and high energy phosphate diffusion on metabolic scaling in three species of tail flipping crustaceans
... mass scaling exponent of ...overall scaling exponent of ...positive scaling with body mass of CS activity (b = ...standard metabolic rate (Childress and Somero, 1990; Somero and Childress, ...
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Metabolic scaling in solid tumours
... the metabolic rate – ...the metabolic rate of the corresponding tumours, and the combined knowledge of these data is quite ...the scaling curve, we note that log 10 2 < ...
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Metabolic scaling: consensus or controversy?
... Coulson's approach contrasts with traditional biochemi- cal measurements: the principal variable is not the con- centration of a resource but the supply rate; metabolic activity depends on encounter frequency not ...
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Scaling of metabolism in Helix aspersa snails: changes through ontogeny and response to selection for increased size
... measure metabolic rate, snails were sampled from the family boxes, placed individually in plastic containers with holes in the lids, and shipped via courier service in an isolation box to the Institute of ...
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Scaling of resting and maximum hopping metabolic rate throughout the life cycle of the locust Locusta migratoria
... the metabolic scaling exponents can be accommodated in the network model, and recent presentations that relax some assumptions of the model by incorporating a range of branching patterns predict allometric ...
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Exercise induced maximal metabolic rate scales with muscle aerobic capacity
... power scaling is not a general or universal law (Darveau et ...‘basal’ metabolic rates in mammals of varying body size. But different scaling may be obtained if the conditions of basal ...
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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
... It is instructive to compare the number of independent parameters and assumptions in the PVFCP model with the number of parameters and assumptions in the two fractal- like models of the arterial network that predict ...
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Metabolic allometric scaling model: combining cellular transportation and heat dissipation constraints
... their metabolic rates were empirically discovered by ...allometric scaling coefficient. With the increase of mass, the metabolic rate usually increases more slowly; if mass increases by two times, ...
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Analytic theories of allometric scaling
... allometric scaling, has been subjected to a wide range of methodological, mathematical and empirical criticisms, not all of which have been answered ...between metabolic rate and body ...of metabolic ...
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Roles of hierarchical and metabolic regulation in the allometric scaling of metabolism in Panamanian orchid bees
... and metabolic regulation in accounting for interspecific variation in metabolic rates is not well ...in metabolic rates during hovering flight involves the hierarchical regulation of flux at the HK ...
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Allometric scaling in centrarchid fish: origins of intra and inter specific variation in oxidative and glycolytic enzyme levels in muscle
... Respiration measurements were performed in standard glass aquaria, with removable, sealable tops constructed of Plexiglass TM . Fish were captured by dipnet and placed in respirometry chambers (50–100·ml·g –1 ·fish) held ...
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