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SUBMITTER: DeLong JP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2919978 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
DeLong John P JP Okie Jordan G JG Moses Melanie E ME Sibly Richard M RM Brown James H JH
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20100629 29
The diversification of life involved enormous increases in size and complexity. The evolutionary transitions from prokaryotes to unicellular eukaryotes to metazoans were accompanied by major innovations in metabolic design. Here we show that the scalings of metabolic rate, population growth rate, and production efficiency with body size have changed across the evolutionary transitions. Metabolic rate scales with body mass superlinearly in prokaryotes, linearly in protists, and sublinearly in met ...[more]