Cell size and cell number as links between noncoding DNA and metabolic rate scaling

Ji-Huan He

Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2006, vol. 28, issue 4, 1026-1028

Abstract: Genome size (C-value) affects cell size directly and specific metabolic rate indirectly. It has been suggested that the scaling exponents of interspecific metabolic rate allometries are by-products of the evolutionary diversification of C-values within narrow taxonomic groups, challenging the so-called ubiquitous 3/4-law. We question this view and suggest another approach to the problem.

Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1016/j.chaos.2005.08.143

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