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Ontogeny of Metabolic Rate and Red Blood Cell Size in Eyelid Geckos: Species Follow Different Paths

While metabolism is a fundamental feature of all organisms, the causes of its scaling with body mass are not yet fully explained. Nevertheless, observations of negative correlations between red blood cell (RBC) size and the rate of metabolism suggest that size variation of these cells responsible fo...

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Autores principales: Starostová, Zuzana, Konarzewski, Marek, Kozłowski, Jan, Kratochvíl, Lukáš
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3660393/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23705003
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0064715