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Evolutionary scaling of maximum growth rate with organism size.
Scientific reports - 30 Dec 2022
Lynch Michael, Trickovic Bogi, Kempes Christopher P
Abstract excerpt
Data from nearly 1000 species reveal the upper bound to rates of biomass production achievable by natural selection across the Tree of Life. For heterotrophs, maximum growth rates scale positively with organism size in bacteria but negatively in eukaryotes, whereas for phototrophs, the scaling is negligible for cyanobacteria and weakly negative for eukaryotes. These results have significant implications for...
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