Abstract
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.
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Hairston, N., Smith, F. E., and Slobodkin, L. B., Amer. Naturalist, 94, 421 (1960).
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SLOBODKIN, L., RICHMAN, S. Calories/gm. in Species of Animals. Nature 191, 299 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/191299a0
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