How metabolic rate relates to cell size

DS Glazier - Biology, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The metabolic conversion of resources into living structures and processes
is fundamental to all living systems. The rate of metabolism ('fire of life') is critical for …

Determinants of inter-specific variation in basal metabolic rate

CR White, MR Kearney - Journal of Comparative physiology B, 2013 - Springer
Basal metabolic rate (BMR) is the rate of metabolism of a resting, postabsorptive, non-
reproductive, adult bird or mammal, measured during the inactive circadian phase at a …

Higher metabolic plasticity in temperate compared to tropical lizards suggests increased resilience to climate change

B Sun, CM Williams, T Li, JR Speakman… - Ecological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Patterns in functional diversity of organisms at large spatial scales can provide insight into
possible responses to future climate change, but it remains a challenge to link large‐scale …

Triploid Pacific oysters exhibit stress response dysregulation and elevated mortality following heatwaves

MN George, O Cattau, MA Middleton… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Polyploidy has been suggested to negatively impact environmental stress tolerance,
resulting in increased susceptibility to extreme climate events. In this study, we compared …

Transposons, genome size, and evolutionary insights in animals

A Canapa, M Barucca, MA Biscotti, M Forconi… - … and genome research, 2015 - karger.com
The relationship between genome size and the percentage of transposons in 161 animal
species evidenced that variations in genome size are linked to the amplification or the …

The evolution of energetic scaling across the vertebrate tree of life

JC Uyeda, MW Pennell, ET Miller… - The American …, 2017 - journals.uchicago.edu
Metabolism is the link between ecology and physiology—it dictates the flow of energy
through individuals and across trophic levels. Much of the predictive power of metabolic …

An evolutionary review of human telomere biology: the thrifty telomere hypothesis and notes on potential adaptive paternal effects

DTA Eisenberg - American Journal of Human Biology, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Telomeres, repetitive DNA sequences found at the ends of linear chromosomes, play a role
in regulating cellular proliferation, and shorten with increasing age in proliferating human …

Why are metabolic scaling exponents so controversial? Quantifying variance and testing hypotheses

NJB Isaac, C Carbone - Ecology letters, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Ecology Letters (2010) 13: 728–735 Abstract The metabolic theory of ecology links
physiology with ecology, and successfully predicts many allometric scaling relationships. In …

Does death drive the scaling of life?

DS Glazier - Biological Reviews, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The magnitude of many kinds of biological structures and processes scale with organismal
size, often in regular ways that can be described by power functions. Traditionally, many of …

Rediscovering and reviving old observations and explanations of metabolic scaling in living systems

DS Glazier - Systems, 2018 - mdpi.com
Why the rate of metabolism varies (scales) in regular, but diverse ways with body size is a
perennial, incompletely resolved question in biology. In this article, I discuss several …