Respiration kinetics and allometric scaling in the demosponge Halichondria panicea

Abstract Background The aquiferous system in sponges represents one of the simplest circulatory systems used by animals for the internal uptake and distribution of oxygen and metabolic substrates. Its modular organization enables sponges to metabolically scale with size differently than animals with...

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Main Authors: Lars Kumala, Malte Thomsen, Donald E. Canfield
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2023-09-01
Series:BMC Ecology and Evolution
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-023-02163-5