Body-Mass Scaling of Metabolic Rate: What are the Relative Roles of Cellular versus Systemic Effects?
The reason why metabolic rate often scales allometrically (disproportionately) with body mass has been debated for decades. A critical question concerns whether metabolic scaling is controlled intrinsically at the intracellular level or systemically at the organismal level. Recently, the relative im...
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MDPI AG
2015-03-01
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| Series: | Biology |
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| Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/2079-7737/4/1/187 |