Do respiratory metabolic rates of the scyphomedusa Aurelia aurita scale isometrically throughout ontogeny in a sexual generation?

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 347, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 51-55

  Kinoshita, Junji ^a   Hiromi, Juro ^a   Kadota, Sadami ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Allometric scaling; Aurelia aurita; Isometric scaling; Jellyfish; Metabolism; Respiration

Indexed keywords

AURELIA AURITA;

EID: 0030801670     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1002942806113     Document Type: Article

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