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American Association for the Advancement of Science, Science, 5945(325), p. 1206-1206, 2009

DOI: 10.1126/science.1171303

American Association for the Advancement of Science, Science, 5945(325), p. 1206-1206, 2009

DOI: 10.1126/science.1169523

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Comment on "Energy Uptake and Allocation During Ontogeny"

Journal article published in 2009 by Tânia Sousa ORCID, Anastassia M. Makarieva ORCID, Gonçalo M. Marques, Victor G. Gorshkov ORCID, Tiago Domingos ORCID, Bai-Lian Li
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Abstract

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.