Comment on "Metabolic scaling is the product of life-history optimization".
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Abstract
White <i>et al</i>. (Science 377, p. 834-839, 2022) propose that reproduction reduces the somatic growth of animals. This contradicts the common observations that non-reproducing adults are not larger than those that reproduced as well as the very example the authors provide of a fish that reproduces while its growth continues to accelerate, which is common in larger fish.
Medical subject headings
- Reproduction
- Perciformes