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ArticleScientific reports2018

Reaction and diffusion thermodynamics explain optimal temperatures of biochemical reactions.

Mark E Ritchie

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Article in Scientific reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Nutrient storage links past thermal exposure to current performance in phytoplankton.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  15. A general theory for temperature dependence in biology.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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  16. Phytoplankton thermal responses adapt in the absence of hard thermodynamic constraints.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Mark E RitchieDepartment of Biology, Syracuse University, 107 College Place, Syracuse, NY, 13244, USA. meritchi@syr.edu.

Funding

National Science Foundation (NSF) DEB 0842230National Science Foundation (NSF) DEB 1557085
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ubiquitous declines in biochemical reaction rates above optimal temperatures (T

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PMID30038415
PMCPMC6056565

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