Why the rate of metabolism varies (scales) in regular, but diverse ways with body size is a
perennial, incompletely resolved question in biology. In this article, I discuss several …

Hypometric scaling of aerobic metabolism [larger organisms have lower mass-specific
metabolic rates (MR/g)] is nearly universal for interspecific comparisons among animals, yet …

Asexual propagation and whole body regeneration are forms of nonembryonic development
(NED) widespread across animal phyla and central in life history and evolutionary …

The temperature-size rule is a commonly observed pattern where adult body size is
negatively correlated with developmental temperature. In part, this may occur as a …

For poikilothermic organisms in aquatic environment, temperature strongly affects
metabolism and modulates the extent to which it is mass transfer limited. The effects of …

Metabolism, one of the canonical features of life, shows a clear correlation to organismal
size. Metabolic scaling is explaining the relationship between organism body mass and …

Colonies grow by producing modules, which are interdependent repeated structural units. I
document module production (ie, budding) in a reef-forming coral, and distinguish between …