Animal size, metabolic rate, and survival, among and within species

The Comparative Biology of Aging

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 27-41

  Austad, Steven N ^a  

^a Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

Author keywords

Body size; Comparative biology; Energetics; Growth hormone; IGF I; Mammal longevity; Metabolic rate; Oxygen radicals; Rate of living

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900203221     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3465-6_2     Document Type: Chapter

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