Life's size and tempo are intimately linked. The rate of metabolism varies with body mass in
remarkably regular ways that can often be described by a simple power function, where the …

Most explanations for the relationship between body size and metabolism invoke physical
constraints; such explanations are evolutionarily inert, limiting their predictive capacity …

Consequences of the cost of living: is variation in metabolic rate evolutionarily significant? |
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The magnitude of many kinds of biological structures and processes scale with organismal
size, often in regular ways that can be described by power functions. Traditionally, many of …

Environmental warming is associated with reductions in ectotherm body sizes, suggesting
that larger individuals may be more vulnerable to climate change. The mechanisms driving …

Simple Summary Large organisms are not simply proportionately magnified versions of
smaller related organisms. The magnitude of various features of organisms often changes …

Constraint-based explanations have dominated theories of size-related patterns in nature for
centuries. Explanations for metabolic scaling–the way in which metabolism changes with …

Females and males can exhibit striking differences in body size, relative trait size,
physiology, and behavior. As a consequence, the sexes can have very different rates of …

Highlights•Homosynergetic metabolic division of labor is widespread but understudied in
social insects.•Metabolic division of labor requires the transfer of processed metabolites …

The allometric scaling of metabolic rate and what drives it are major questions in biology
with a long history. Since the metabolic rate at any level of biological organization is an …