Ecological correlates of body size in relation to cell size and cell number: Patterns in flies, fish, fruits and foliage

Biological Reviews

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 241-256

  Arendt, Jeff ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Body size; Cell number; Cell size; Resources; Temperature

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; CELL COUNT; CELL GROWTH; CELL SIZE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ECOLOGY; FISH; FLY; FOLIAGE; FOOD; FRUIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; WILDLIFE;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; CELL COUNT; CELL SIZE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENVIRONMENT; FISHES; FRUIT; PLANT LEAVES; TEMPERATURE;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 34247136409     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: 1469185X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-185X.2007.00013.x     Document Type: Review

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