Reproduction Abstracts

Introduction: Mass-specific metabolic rate, the rate at which an organism consumes energy per gram of body weight, is negatively associated with body size in metazoans. Since the basal metabolic rate of a whole organism represents the sum of its cellular metabolic rates, small species have higher cellular metabolic rates and are capable of processing resources at a faster rate than large species. Recent studies have shown that mass-specific metabolic rate positively influences...