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  1. Energetic cost of biosynthesis modulates the growth-longevity tradeoff in mice: Quantitative insights into four lifespan-altering manipulations

    Article • Mechanisms of Ageing and Development, August 2025, Elsevier

    Professor Chen Hou

  2. Life History Differences Between Lepidoptera Larvae and Blattodea Nymphs Lead to Different Energy Allocation Strategies and Cellular Qualities

    Article • Insects, December 2024, MDPI AG

    Professor Chen Hou

  3. Life, Death and Energy: What Does Nature Select?

    Article • Ecology Letters, October 2024, Wiley

    Professor Chen Hou

  4. Disproportional fraction of inactive components leads to the variation in metabolic scaling

    Article • Biosystems, September 2024, Elsevier

    Professor Chen Hou

  5. LIFE, DEATH AND ENERGY: WHAT DOES NATURE SELECT?

    Article • July 2024, Wiley

    Professor Chen Hou

  6. 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

  7. Comparison of Energy Budget of Cockroach Nymph (Hemimetabolous) and Hornworm (Holometabolous) under Food Restriction

    Article • Insects, January 2024, MDPI AG

    Professor Chen Hou

  8. Energetic Cost of Biosynthesis Is a Missing Link between Growth and Longevity in Mammals

    Article • October 2023, Wiley

    Professor Chen Hou

  9. Link between Energy Investment in Biosynthesis and Proteostasis: Testing the Cost–Quality Hypothesis in Insects

    Article • Insects, February 2023, MDPI AG

    Professor Chen Hou

  10. Universal rules of life: metabolic rates, biological times and the equal fitness paradigm

    Article • Ecology Letters, April 2021, Wiley

    Professor Chen Hou

  11. Is mitochondrial reactive oxygen species production proportional to oxygen consumption? A theoretical consideration

    Article • BioEssays, February 2021, Wiley

    Professor Chen Hou

  12. Universal rules of life: metabolic rates, biological times and the equal fitness paradigm

    Article • February 2021, Wiley

    Professor Chen Hou

  13. 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

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

    Article • BioEssays, June 2018, Wiley

    Professor Chen Hou

  15. 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

  16. 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

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

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

    Professor Chen Hou

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

    Article • Insect Science, May 2014, Wiley

    Professor Chen Hou

  19. The energy trade-off between growth and longevity

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

    Professor Chen Hou

  20. 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

  21. 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

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

    Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, July 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Chen Hou

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

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

    Professor Chen Hou

  24. 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

  25. Energetic and biomechanical constraints on animal migration distance

    Article • Ecology Letters, November 2011, Wiley

    Professor Chen Hou

  26. 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

  27. 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

  28. 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

  29. 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

  30. Eusocial insects as superorganisms

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

    Professor Chen Hou, Dr. Michael Kaspari

  31. 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

  32. 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

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

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

    Professor Chen Hou

  34. Energy Uptake and Allocation During Ontogeny

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

    Professor Chen Hou

  35. 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