Experimental allometry: effect of size manipulation on metabolic rate of colonial ascidians. Nakaya, F., Saito, Y., & Motokawa, T. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 272(1575):1963–1969, September, 2005.
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The allometric scaling of metabolic rate of organisms, the three-quarters power rule, has led to a questioning of the basis for the relation. We attacked this problem experimentally for the first time by employing the modular organism, the ascidian that forms a single layered flat colony, as a model system. The metabolic rate and colony size followed the three-quarters power relation, which held even after the colony size was experimentally manipulated. Our results established that the three-quarters power relation is a real continuous function, not an imaginary statistical regression. The fact that all the hypotheses failed to explain why the two-dimensional organism adhered to the three-quarters power relation led us to propose a new hypothesis, in which the allometric relation derives from the self-organized criticality based on local interaction between modulus-comprising organisms.
@article{nakaya_experimental_2005,
	title = {Experimental allometry: effect of size manipulation on metabolic rate of colonial ascidians},
	volume = {272},
	issn = {0962-8452, 1471-2954},
	shorttitle = {Experimental allometry},
	url = {https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2005.3143},
	doi = {10.1098/rspb.2005.3143},
	abstract = {The allometric scaling of metabolic rate of organisms, the three-quarters power rule, has led to a questioning of the basis for the relation. We attacked this problem experimentally for the first time by employing the modular organism, the ascidian that forms a single layered flat colony, as a model system. The metabolic rate and colony size followed the three-quarters power relation, which held even after the colony size was experimentally manipulated. Our results established that the three-quarters power relation is a real continuous function, not an imaginary statistical regression. The fact that all the hypotheses failed to explain why the two-dimensional organism adhered to the three-quarters power relation led us to propose a new hypothesis, in which the allometric relation derives from the self-organized criticality based on local interaction between modulus-comprising organisms.},
	language = {en},
	number = {1575},
	urldate = {2021-07-26},
	journal = {Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences},
	author = {Nakaya, Fumio and Saito, Yasunori and Motokawa, Tatsuo},
	month = sep,
	year = {2005},
	pages = {1963--1969},
}

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