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Anastassia M. Makarieva | Zendy; V. G. Gorshkov | Zendy; Bai-Lian Li | Zendy

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Comment on “Energy Uptake and Allocation During Ontogeny”

Author(s) -

Anastassia M. Makarieva,

V. G. Gorshkov,

Bai-Lian Li

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

science

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 12.556

H-Index - 1186

eISSN - 1095-9203

pISSN - 0036-8075

DOI - 10.1126/science.1171303

Subject(s) - ontogeny , energy metabolism , scaling , energy (signal processing) , quarter (canadian coin) , biology , metabolic rate , statistics , mathematics , endocrinology , geography , geometry , archaeology

We demonstrate that the model of energy allocation during ontogeny of Hou et al. (Reports, 31 October 2008, p. 736) fails to account for the observed elevation of metabolic rate in growing organisms compared with similarly sized adults of different species. The basic model assumptions of the three-quarter power scaling for resting metabolism and constancy of the mass-specific maintenance metabolism need to be reassessed.

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