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List of works by Chen Hou

A general model for effects of temperature on ectotherm ontogenetic growth and development.

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A general model for ontogenetic growth under food restriction

scientific article published on 23 February 2011

Cellular oxidative damage is more sensitive to biosynthetic rate than to metabolic rate: A test of the theoretical model on hornworms (Manduca sexta larvae).

scientific article published on 10 June 2016

Energetic and biomechanical constraints on animal migration distance

scientific article published on 17 November 2011

Energetic basis of colonial living in social insects

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Energetic basis of correlation between catch-up growth, health maintenance, and aging.

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Energy uptake and allocation during ontogeny

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Eusocial insects as superorganisms: Insights from metabolic theory

scientific article published on July 2010

Explaining differences in the lifespan and replicative capacity of cells: a general model and comparative analysis of vertebrates

scientific article published on 18 July 2012

High temperature slows down growth in tobacco hornworms (Manduca sexta larvae) under food restriction

scientific article published on 20 May 2014

Increasing energetic cost of biosynthesis during growth makes refeeding deleterious

scientific article published on 7 July 2014

Link between Energy Investment in Biosynthesis and Proteostasis: Testing the Cost–Quality Hypothesis in Insects

scientific article published in 2023

Primate enamel evinces long period biological timing and regulation of life history

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Pulmonary diffusional screening and the scaling laws of mammalian metabolic rates

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Reverse engineering of oxygen transport in the lung: adaptation to changing demands and resources through space-filling networks

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The energy trade-off between growth and longevity

scientific article published on 18 July 2013

Toward a metabolic theory of life history

scientific article published on 10 December 2019

Towards a general life-history model of the superorganism: predicting the survival, growth and reproduction of ant societies.

scientific article published on 15 August 2012

Universal rules of life: metabolic rates, biological times and the equal fitness paradigm

scientific article published on 22 April 2021