analysed the effects of variation in maintenance metabolic costs with temperature on reproductive metabolism in poikilotherrnic animals. Based on model calculations, he concluded that annual mass-speclfic gonad production (GP) and the share of assimilated energy used for reproductive purposes (RE) are affected in opposite ways by temperature.
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