A factorial experimental design was used to analyse the relevance of the behavioural factor in relation to three factors that are known to affect individual energetics; i.e. resource growth rate (RGR), assimilation efficiency (AE), and body size of individuals.
In our experimental setting, these traits reflects competitive ability at the time when the bacteria were serially transferred to the new microcosms with lots of fresh resources ('maximum growth rate' trait), and when the resources became well consumed at the end of the 4-day long serial transfer schedule ('maximum population size').
A widely held view in ageing research is that the rate of ageing is influenced by the division of resources between growth rate and reproduction on one hand, and somatic maintenance on the other [ 1].
This review addresses such functional characteristics of wild lianas while focusing on whole-plant resource allocation, growth rate and some organ-specific structural and functional features of leaves, stems and roots.
The consequent fiscal burden diverted resources that might otherwise have been used for investment, while the inefficient use of resources dampened growth rates.
The main thrust of the paper is therefore focused on the validation of the reconstructed models through different publically available resources, including growth rates, drug response, biomarkers and clinical survival data, and through the generation of new data concerning the differential effect of 13 predicted genes upon cancer cell growth.
Note that this type of relation between resource concentration and growth rate is known as Holling's type II functional response to a resource concentration [19] in the general ecological theory.
In this review, these hypotheses are evaluated by assembling and synthesizing published and unpublished data sets from across the globe concerning resource allocation, growth rates and traits of leaves, stems and roots of climbers and self-supporting species.
If any of these three resources are limiting the growth rate or yield of bacteria, in that an increase or decrease in the resource causes a concordant increase or decrease in rate or yield, then expressing the β-lactamase will reduce the trait in question, and the magnitude of this reduction will depend on the amount of resistance protein produced relative to the total biomass of a cell.
