Size relationship of metabolic rate: Oxygen availability as the "missing link" between structure and function?

Thermochimica Acta

Volumn 446, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 20-28

  Singer, Dominique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Allometry; Body size; Crowding effect; Metabolic rate; Oxygen supply

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; REACTION KINETICS; SIZE DETERMINATION; SUBSTRATES; TOXICITY;

ALLOMETRY; BODY SIZE; CROWDING EFFECT; METABOLIC RATE;

OXYGEN SUPPLY;

EID: 33744986531     PISSN: 00406031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tca.2006.05.006     Document Type: Review

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