Based on Body Size, Bacteria and Elephants Have Similar Metabolism, Ecologists Find - UCR-led research team shows that organisms use their biochemical characteristics to overcome limitations arising from their body size

2005-10-19 - RIVERSIDE, Calif, South Africa.

Life scientists have long maintained that, based on body size, small organisms are more metabolically active than large organisms. A new study shows that this is true only for organisms that are closely related evolutionarily and have body masses differing by no more than 6-7 orders of magnitude – about the difference in body mass between an elephant and a shrew.

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