Energy uptake and allocation during ontogeny

Science

Volumn 322, Issue 5902, 2008, Pages 736-739

  Hou, Chen ^a   Zuo, Wenyun ^b   Moses, Melanie E ^c   Woodruff, William H ^a,d   Brown, James H ^a,b   West, Geoffrey B ^a,d  

^a SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c University of New Mexico   (United States)

^d LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOACTIVITY; BIOENERGETICS; BIOMASS; BIRD; BODY SIZE; ENERGY BUDGET; ENERGY FLOW; FOOD CONSUMPTION; FOOD INTAKE; GROWTH MODELING; MAMMAL; METABOLISM; ONTOGENY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TAXONOMY;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; BIRD; BODY GROWTH; BODY SIZE; CALCULATION; DIGESTION; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; FOOD INTAKE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNTHESIS;

ANIMALS; BASAL METABOLISM; BIOMASS; BIRDS; BODY SIZE; ENERGY INTAKE; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; FOOD; GROWTH; MALE; MAMMALS; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

ANIMALIA; AVES; MAMMALIA;

EID: 55349137753     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1162302     Document Type: Article

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21. Supported by NIH grants P20 RR-018754 (for M.E.M.) and DK36263 (for W.H.W.) and by NSF grants DEB-0083422 and CCF0621900 (for J.H.B.) and PHY 0706174 and PHY 0202180 (for G.B.W.) G.B.W. also acknowledges the Thaw Charitable Trust for its support.