Fig. 3. Allometry of the fatty acyl composition in tissue phospholipids in mammals
of different body mass. (A) Heart phospholipids, (B) skeletal muscle
phospholipids, (C) liver phospholipids, (D) kidney phospholipids. Open circles
represent the total percent of unsaturated acyl chains and filled circles the
docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) content of the respective tissue phospholipids. All
data are taken from Hulbert et al.
(2002b). The allometric
equation for the DHA data is shown in each panel.