Supply-Side Constraints Are Insufficient to Explain the Ontogenetic Scaling of Metabolic Rate in the Tobacco Hornworm, Manduca sexta

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Callier, Viviane ^a,b   Nijhout, H Frederik ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; OXYGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; BREATHING RATE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; LARVA; MANDUCA SEXTA; METABOLIC RATE; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; OXYGEN SUPPLY; TRACHEA;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; ENERGY METABOLISM; MANDUCA; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLTING; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; MANDUCA SEXTA;

EID: 84866564692     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045455     Document Type: Article

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