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Basal metabolic rate and maternal energetic investment durations in mammals
BACKGROUND: The Metabolic Theory of Ecology (MTE) predicts that gestation duration, lactation duration, and their sum, total development time, are constrained by mass-specific basal metabolic rate such that they should scale with body mass with an exponent of 0.25. However, tests of the MTE’s predic...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4177257/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25270504 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-014-0194-z |