Makarieva Anastassia M, Gorshkov Victor G, Li Bai-Lian
Theoretical Physics Division, Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Science. 2009 Sep 4;325(5945):1206; author reply 1206. doi: 10.1126/science.1171303.
We demonstrate that the model of energy allocation during ontogeny of Hou et al. (Reports, 31 October 2008, p. 736) fails to account for the observed elevation of metabolic rate in growing organisms compared with similarly sized adults of different species. The basic model assumptions of the three-quarter power scaling for resting metabolism and constancy of the mass-specific maintenance metabolism need to be reassessed.
我们证明，侯等人（《报告》，2008年10月31日，第736页）提出的个体发育过程中的能量分配模型，无法解释与不同物种体型相似的成年个体相比，生长中的生物体代谢率升高这一现象。静息代谢的四分之三次幂标度以及质量特异性维持代谢恒定的基本模型假设需要重新评估。
