Ontogenetic growth: Schmalhausen or von Bertalanffy?
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Ontogenetic growth: Schmalhausen or von Bertalanffy?: comment on "Physiologic time: A hypothesis" by D. West and B.J. West.
The paper [1] is very interesting and important for the biology of development. This is primarily due to the range of the topics involved: physiological and physical (chronological) times, allometry, metabolism, and growth rate. However, there have already been investigations that attempted to connect the above concepts. These papers are partially presented in the large bibliography [1] or, for...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physics of Life Reviews
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1571-0645
DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2013.06.001