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The natural selection of metabolism and mass selects lifeforms from viruses to multicellular animals

I show that the natural selection of metabolism and mass can select for the major life‐history and allometric transitions that define lifeforms from viruses, over prokaryotes and larger unicells, to multicellular animals. The proposed selection is driven by a mass‐specific metabolism that is selecte...

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Autor principal: Witting, Lars
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5677505/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29152201
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3432