Organ Size and Energetic Scaling in Marsupials

小行星9602889 根据该奖项，西雅图华盛顿大学生物结构系的John Prothero教授将在澳大利亚花费三个月时间，收集有袋动物器官和能量缩放的数据库，作为身体大小的函数。 他将集中在新南威尔士大学生物科学学院T.J. Dawson教授的实验室，但将与澳大利亚各地的同事进行广泛接触。该数据库将被用来检验一个假设，即有袋类动物的代谢昂贵器官（主要是脑、心脏、肾、肺、骨骼肌）与体重的比例与真兽目动物相同，这是通过回归分析确定的。 这些数据将有助于理解相同的结构规则适用于所有哺乳动物的程度。 ***

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. ***