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

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

Metabolic cold adaptation, or Krogh's rule, is the controversial hypothesis that predicts a
monotonically negative relationship between metabolic rate and environmental temperature …

Fish tend to grow faster as the climate warms but attain a smaller adult body size following
an earlier age at sexual maturation. Despite the apparent ubiquity of this phenomenon …

Stoichiometric rules may explain the allometric scaling among biological traits and body
size, a fundamental law of nature. However, testing the scaling of elemental stoichiometry …

The lifetime growth of almost all fishes follows a biphasic relationship–juvenile growth is
rapid and adult growth subsequently decelerates. For a trend that is so ubiquitous, there is …

Reproduction includes two energy investments—the energy in the offspring and the energy
expended to make them. The former is well understood, whereas the latter is unquantified …

Understanding how growth and reproduction will adapt to changing environmental
conditions is a fundamental question in evolutionary ecology, but predicting the responses …

Background: Various biological properties of organisms relate to body size, often in regular
quantifiable ways. Traditionally, these biological scaling relationships have been explained …

Glucocorticoids, commonly used to manage inflammatory diseases, can induce muscle
atrophy by accelerating the breakdown of muscle proteins. This research delves into the …