Scaling functions to body size: Theories and facts

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 208, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1573-1574

  Hoppeler, Hans ^a   Weibel, Ewald R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY SIZE; EDITORIAL; ENERGY METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BASAL METABOLISM; BODY SIZE; ENERGY METABOLISM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 18944374595     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.01630     Document Type: Editorial

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