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Nature 191, 299 (15 July 1961); doi:10.1038/191299a0

Calories/gm. in Species of Animals

L. B. SLOBODKIN & S. RICHMAN

Department of Zoology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Department of Biology, Lawrence College, Appleton, Wisconsin.

ANIMALS of seventeen species, representing six phyla, were burned in a miniature bomb calorimeter1. The data are presented as calories/ash-free gm. in Table 1 and as a histogram, Fig. 1.

  1. McEwan, W. S. , and Anderson, C. M. , Rev. Sci. Instrum., 26, 280 (1955). | Article | ISI | ChemPort |
  2. Hairston, N. , Smith, F. E. , and Slobodkin, L. B. , Amer. Naturalist, 94, 421 (1960). | Article | ISI |



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