ALLOMETRIC RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN EMBRYONIC HEART RATE AND FRESH EGG MASS IN BIRDS

165 The Journal of Experimental Biology 204, 165–174 (2001) Printed in Great Britain © The Company of Biologists Limited 2001 JEB2993 ALLOMETRIC REL...
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The Journal of Experimental Biology 204, 165–174 (2001) Printed in Great Britain © The Company of Biologists Limited 2001 JEB2993

ALLOMETRIC RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN EMBRYONIC HEART RATE AND FRESH EGG MASS IN BIRDS HIROSHI TAZAWA1,*, JAMES T. PEARSON1, TAKASHI KOMORO1 AND AMOS AR2 1Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Muroran Institute of Technology, Muroran 050-8585, Japan and 2Department of Zoology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel *e-mail: [email protected]

Accepted 16 October; published on WWW 5 December 2000 Summary The allometric relationship derived for ASA birds was fH Previously, we have measured daily changes (developmental patterns) in embryonic heart rate (fH) in at 80 % ID=371M−0.121 (r=−0.846, P

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