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Energetics of the smallest: do bacteria breathe at the same rate as whales?

Power laws describing the dependence of metabolic rate on body mass have been established for many taxa, but not for prokaryotes, despite the ecological dominance of the smallest living beings. Our analysis of 80 prokaryote species with cell volumes ranging more than 1 000 000-fold revealed no signi...

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Autori principali: Makarieva, Anastassia M, Gorshkov, Victor G, Li, Bai-Lian
Natura: Artigo
Lingua:Inglês
Pubblicazione: The Royal Society 2005
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Accesso online:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1559947/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16191633
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2005.3225
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