Scaling of skeletal mass to body mass in
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Mayra Berrios-Lopez; Allen R. Lewis; Dannie A. Hensley
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Article
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1996
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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The few available observations are consistent with the supposition that the relative weightlessness of fishes leads to isometric scaling of skeletal mass to body mass. To explore further this pattern we studied scaling in ontogeny with freshwater tilapia, Oreochromis nilotica, and in phylogeny with