Basal metabolic rate and maternal energetic investment durations in mammals

Volume: 14, Issue: 1
Published: Sep 14, 2014
Abstract
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 predictions have yielded mixed results. In an effort to resolve this uncertainty, we used phylogenetically-controlled regression to investigate the allometries of...
Paper Details
Title
Basal metabolic rate and maternal energetic investment durations in mammals
Published Date
Sep 14, 2014
Volume
14
Issue
1
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