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  1. Energetic cost of biosynthesis is a missing link between growth and longevity in mammals

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, May 2024, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Chen Hou

  2. Toward a metabolic theory of life history

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, December 2019, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Chen Hou

  3. Comparing the New and Existing Hypotheses on Energy Metabolism and Longevity

    Article • BioEssays, June 2018, Wiley

    Professor Chen Hou

  4. Heterogeneous activity causes a nonlinear increase in the group energy use of ant workers isolated from queen and brood

    Article • Insect Science, February 2017, Wiley

    Professor Chen Hou

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

    Article • Experimental Gerontology, September 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Chen Hou

  6. Increasing Energetic Cost of Biosynthesis during Growth Makes Refeeding Deleterious

    Article • The American Naturalist, August 2014, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Chen Hou

  7. High temperature slows down growth in tobacco hornworms (Manduca sextalarvae) under food restriction

    Article • Insect Science, May 2014, Wiley

    Professor Chen Hou

  8. The energy trade-off between growth and longevity

    Article • Mechanisms of Ageing and Development, September 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Chen Hou

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

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, August 2012, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Chen Hou, Dr. Michael Kaspari

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

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, July 2012, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Chen Hou

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

    Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, July 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Chen Hou

  12. Pulmonary diffusional screening and the scaling laws of mammalian metabolic rates

    Article • Physical Review E, December 2011, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Chen Hou

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

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, November 2011, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Chen Hou

  14. Energetic and biomechanical constraints on animal migration distance

    Article • Ecology Letters, November 2011, Wiley

    Professor Chen Hou

  15. Energetic Basis of Correlation Between Catch-Up Growth, Health Maintenance, and Aging

    Article • The Journals of Gerontology Series A, March 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Chen Hou

  16. A general model for ontogenetic growth under food restriction

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, February 2011, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Chen Hou

  17. A General Life History Theory for Effects of Caloric Restriction on Health Maintenance

    Article • BMC Systems Biology, January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Chen Hou

  18. Reverse Engineering of Oxygen Transport in the Lung: Adaptation to Changing Demands and Resources through Space-Filling Networks

    Article • PLoS Computational Biology, August 2010, PLOS

    Professor Chen Hou

  19. Eusocial insects as superorganisms

    Article • Communicative & Integrative Biology, July 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Chen Hou, Dr. Michael Kaspari

  20. The effect of Baihu Decoction (白虎汤) on blood glucose levels in treating systemic inflammatory response syndrome

    Article • Chinese Journal of Integrative Medicine, June 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Chen Hou

  21. Energetic basis of colonial living in social insects

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, February 2010, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Chen Hou, Dr. Michael Kaspari

  22. Response to Comments on "Energy Uptake and Allocation During Ontogeny"

    Article • Science, September 2009, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Professor Chen Hou

  23. Energy Uptake and Allocation During Ontogeny

    Article • Science, October 2008, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Professor Chen Hou

  24. Revisiting a Model of Ontogenetic Growth: Estimating Model Parameters from Theory and Data

    Article • The American Naturalist, May 2008, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Chen Hou