The universality and the future prospects of physiological energetics: Reply to comments on "Physics of metabolic organization"

Marko Jusup; Tânia Sousa; Tiago Domingos; Velimir Labinac; Nina Marn; Zhen Wang; Tin Klanjšček

doi:10.1016/j.plrev.2017.02.002

The universality and the future prospects of physiological energetics: Reply to comments on "Physics of metabolic organization"

Phys Life Rev. 2017 Mar:20:78-84. doi: 10.1016/j.plrev.2017.02.002. Epub 2017 Feb 16.

Authors

Marko Jusup¹, Tânia Sousa², Tiago Domingos², Velimir Labinac³, Nina Marn⁴, Zhen Wang⁵, Tin Klanjšček⁴

Affiliations

¹ Center of Mathematics for Social Creativity, Hokkaido University, 5-8 Kita Ward, Sapporo 060-0808, Japan. Electronic address: mjusup@gmail.com.
² Maretec, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Av. Rovisco Pais 1, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal.
³ Department of Physics, University of Rijeka, R. Matejčić 2, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia.
⁴ Department for Marine and Environmental Research, Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Bijenička 54, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.
⁵ Center for OPTical IMagery Analysis and Learning (OPTIMAL), Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, Shaanxi, China.

PMID: 28237359
DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2017.02.002

Abstract

In response to the comments on review "Physics of metabolic organization", we discuss the universality and the future prospects of physiological energetics. The topics range from the role of entropy in modeling living organisms to the apparent ubiquity of the von Bertalanffy curve, and the potential applications of the theory in yet unexplored domains. Tradeoffs in outreach to non-specialists are also briefly considered.

Keywords: DEB theory; Entropy; Homeostasis; Metabolic acceleration; Von Bertalanffy curve.

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MeSH terms

Entropy*
Humans
Physics*