Organ Size and Energetic Scaling in Marsupials

9602889根据这一奖项，西雅图华盛顿大学生物结构系的约翰·普罗瑟罗教授将在澳大利亚花三个月的时间建立一个关于有袋类动物器官和能量比例随身体大小变化的数据库。他将在新南威尔士大学生物科学学院T.J.道森教授的实验室工作，但将与澳大利亚各地的同事进行广泛的联系。该数据库将被用来检验一个假设，即有袋类动物中代谢昂贵的器官(主要是脑、心、肾、肺、骨骼肌)与体重的比例与真兽类动物的比例相同，这是通过回归分析确定的。这些数据将有助于理解同样的结构规则在多大程度上适用于所有哺乳动物。***

9602889 Prothero Under this award, Professor John Prothero of the Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington, Seattle, will spend three months in Australia to amass a database on organ and energetic scaling in marsupials as a function of body size. He will be centered at the laboratory of Professor T.J. Dawson of the School of Biological Sciences, University of New South Wales, but will make extensive contacts with colleagues throughout Australia. The database will be used to test the hypothesis that metabolically expensive organs (chiefly brain, heart, kidney, lung, skeletal muscle) in marsupials scale with body weight the same way they do in eutherians, as determined by regression analysis. Such data will contribute to an understanding of the degree to which the same structural rules apply to all mammals. ***