Body size-dependent energy storage causes Kleiber’s law scaling of the metabolic rate in planarians
A. Thommen, S. Werner, O. Frank, J. Philipp, O. Knittelfelder, Y. Quek, K. Fahmy, A. Shevchenko, B. M. Friedrich, F. Julicher, J. C. Rink
This study shows Kleiber’s law in planarians arises from size-dependent energy storage, not cellular metabolic rate changes.
bioRxiv · May 30, 2018Biophysics