Ontogenetic body-mass scaling of resting metabolic rate covaries with species-specific metabolic level and body size in spiders and snakes

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 153, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 403-407

  Glazier, Douglas S ^a  

^a JUNIATA COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Allometric scaling; Body mass; Constraints; Metabolism; Respiration; Snakes; Spiders; Surface area; Tissue volume

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; GENETICS; HYPOTHESIS; METABOLIC RATE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; SNAKE; SPIDER;

ANIMALIA; ARANEAE; BOIDAE; SERPENTES;

EID: 67349286822     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2009.03.020     Document Type: Article

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