Response to comments on "Energy uptake and allocation during ontogeny"

Science

Volumn 325, Issue 5945, 2009, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b University of New Mexico   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; MODEL; NONHUMAN; NOTE; ONTOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORY;

EID: 69949126063     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1171949     Document Type: Note

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13. 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.