scholarly journals Body length rather than routine metabolic rate and body condition correlates with activity and risk-taking in juvenile zebrafish Danio rerio

2016 ◽  
Vol 89 (5) ◽  
pp. 2251-2267 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Polverino ◽  
D. Bierbach ◽  
S. S. Killen ◽  
S. Uusi-Heikkilä ◽  
R. Arlinghaus
Keyword(s):  
Metabolic Rate ◽  
Body Length ◽  
Body Condition ◽  
Danio Rerio ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Routine Metabolic Rate

scholarly journals Size-selective mortality fosters ontogenetic changes in collective risk-taking behaviour in zebrafish, Danio rerio

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamal Roy ◽  
Robert Arlinghaus
Keyword(s):  
Danio Rerio ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Direct Selection ◽  
Small Fish ◽  
Control Line ◽  
Selective Mortality ◽  
Predation Threat ◽  
Size Selection ◽  
Risk Of Predation ◽  
The Impact

AbstractSize-selective mortality is common in fish populations and can operate either in a positive size-selective fashion or be negatively size-selective. Through various mechanisms (like genetic correlations among behaviour and life-history traits or direct selection on behaviour co-varying with growth rate or size-at-maturation), both positive- and negative size-selection can result in evolutionary changes in behavioural traits. Theory suggests that size-selection alone favours boldness, but little experimental evidence exists about whether and to what extent size-selection can trigger its evolution. Here we investigated the impact of size-selective mortality on boldness across ontogeny using three experimental lines of zebrafish (Danio rerio) generated through positive (large-harvested), negative (small-harvested) and random (control line) size-selective mortality for five generations. We measured risk-taking during feeding (boldness) under simulated aerial predation threat and in presence of a live cichlid. We found that boldness decreased with ontogenetic age under aerial predation threat, and the small-harvested line was consistently bolder than controls. Collective personality emerged post larval stages among the selection lines. In presence of a cichlid, the large-harvested line was bolder at the highest risk of predation. The large-harvested line showed higher variability and plasticity in boldness across life stages and predation risks. Collectively, our results demonstrate that size-selective harvesting may evolutionarily alter risk-taking tendency. Size-selection alone favours boldness when selection acts on small fish. Selection typical of fisheries operating on large fish favours boldness at the highest risk of predation and increases behavioural variability and plasticity. There was no evidence for positive size-selection favouring evolution of shyness.

scholarly journals A first look at the metabolic rate of Greenland sharks (Somniosus microcephalus) in the Canadian Arctic

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Ste-Marie ◽  
Yuuki Y. Watanabe ◽  
Jayson M. Semmens ◽  
Marianne Marcoux ◽  
Nigel E. Hussey
Keyword(s):  
Metabolic Rate ◽  
Routine Metabolic Rate ◽  
Metabolic Rates ◽  
Greenland Shark ◽  
Cold Temperatures ◽  
Polar Species ◽  
Temperature Scaling ◽  
Somniosus Microcephalus ◽  
Large Water ◽  
Trophic Impact

Abstract Metabolic rate is intricately linked to the ecology of organisms and can provide a framework to study the behaviour, life history, population dynamics, and trophic impact of a species. Acquiring measures of metabolic rate, however, has proven difficult for large water-breathing animals such as sharks, greatly limiting our understanding of the energetic lives of these highly threatened and ecologically important fish. Here, we provide the first estimates of resting and active routine metabolic rate for the longest lived vertebrate, the Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus). Estimates were acquired through field respirometry conducted on relatively large-bodied sharks (33–126 kg), including the largest individual shark studied via respirometry. We show that despite recording very low whole-animal resting metabolic rates for this species, estimates are within the confidence intervals predicted by derived interspecies allometric and temperature scaling relationships, suggesting this species may not be unique among sharks in this respect. Additionally, our results do not support the theory of metabolic cold adaptation which assumes that polar species maintain elevated metabolic rates to cope with the challenges of life at extreme cold temperatures.

scholarly journals Effects of sub-chronic methylphenidate on risk-taking and sociability in zebrafish (Danio rerio)

2020 ◽  
Vol 393 (8) ◽  
pp. 1373-1381 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca G. Brenner ◽  
Anthony N. Oliveri ◽  
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong ◽  
Edward D. Levin
Keyword(s):  
Danio Rerio ◽  
Risk Taking

scholarly journals Sex-specific pace-of-life syndromes

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 1096-1105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joe A Moschilla ◽  
Joseph L Tomkins ◽  
Leigh W Simmons
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Metabolic Rate ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Life History Traits ◽  
Significant Negative Correlation ◽  
Covariance Structures ◽  
Field Crickets ◽  
Pace Of Life ◽  
Specific Trait ◽  
Trait Covariance

Abstract The pace-of-life syndrome (POLS) hypothesis considers an animal’s behavior, physiology, and life history as nonindependent components of a single integrated phenotype. However, frequent deviations from the expected correlations between POLS traits suggest that these relationships may be context, and potentially, sex dependent. To determine whether the sexes express distinct POLS trait covariance structures, we observed the behavior (mobility, latency to emerge from a shelter), physiology (mass-specific metabolic rate), and life history (life span, development time) of male and female Australian field crickets (Teleogryllus oceanicus). Path analysis modeling suggested that POLS trait covariation differed between the sexes. Although neither sex displayed the complete integration of traits predicted by the POLS hypothesis, females did display greater overall integration with a significant negative correlation between metabolic rate and risk-taking behavior but with life-history traits varying independently. In males, however, there was no clear association between traits. These results suggest that T. oceanicus do indeed display sex-specific trait covariance structures, emphasizing the importance of acknowledging sex in assessments of POLS.

scholarly journals The opposite effects of routine metabolic rate and metabolic rate during startle responses on variation in the predictability of behaviour in hermit crabs

Behaviour ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 153 (13-14) ◽  
pp. 1545-1566 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariana Velasque ◽  
Mark Briffa
Keyword(s):  
Metabolic Rate ◽  
Generalized Linear Models ◽  
Startle Response ◽  
Linear Models ◽  
Elevated Temperatures ◽  
Hermit Crabs ◽  
Routine Metabolic Rate ◽  
Intraindividual Variation ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Pagurus Bernhardus

Studies on animal behaviour have suggested a link between personality and energy expenditure. However, most models assume constant variation within individuals, even though individuals vary between observations. Such variation is called intraindividual variation in behaviour (IIV). We investigate if IIV in the duration of the startle response is associated with metabolic rates (MR) in the hermit crabPagurus bernhardus. We repeatedly measured startle response durations and MR during each observation. We used double hierarchical generalized linear models to ask whether among and IIV in behaviour was underpinned by MR. We found no association between the mean duration of the startle responses and either routine MR or MR during startle response. Nevertheless, we found that IIV increased with MR during startle responses and decreased with routine MR. These results indicate that crabs with higher MR during startle responses behave less predictably, and that predictability is reduced during exposure to elevated temperatures.

Surface Area of the Euphausiid Thysanöessa raschii and Its Relation to Body Length, Weight, and Respiration

1977 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gareth C. H. Harding
Keyword(s):  
Oxygen Consumption ◽  
Metabolic Rate ◽  
Surface Area ◽  
Body Length ◽  
External Surface ◽  
Dry Weight ◽  
External Surface Area ◽  
Marine Crustaceans ◽  
Respiratory Surface ◽  
Wet Weight

A method is described for estimating the surface area of marine crustaceans. The external surface area of the euphausiid Thysanöessa raschii (M. Sars) is proportional to length2.4, dry weight0.95, and wet weight0.84. Oxygen consumption is proportional to wet weight0.82, which indicates that respiration should be proportional to respiratory surface area. The implications of this finding regarding the relations of metabolic rate, size, and surface area are discussed in a broader framework by comparing them with similar studies on vertebrates and other invertebrates.

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