Average daily metabolic rate, reproduction and energy allocation during lactation in the Sundevall Jird Meriones crassus

Functional Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 496-503

  Kam, M ^a   Cohen Gross, S ^b   Khokhlova, I S ^a   Degen, A A ^a   Geffen, E ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Efficiency of lactation; Litter size; Milk production; Offspring growth rate

Indexed keywords

BIOENERGETICS; LACTATION; METABOLISM; REPRODUCTION; RODENT;

MERIONES; MERIONES CRASSUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 0041350566     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2435.2003.00754.x     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. Antinuchi, C.D. & Busch, C. (2001) Reproductive energetics and thermoregulatory status of nestlings in the pampas mice Akodon azarae (Rodentia: Sigmodontinae). Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 74, 319-324.
2. Degen, A.A. (1997) Ecophysiology of Small Desert Mammals. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
3. Degen, A.A., Kam, M. & Jurgrau, D. (1988) Energy requirements of fat sand rats (Psammomys obesus) and their efficiency of utilization of the saltbush Atriplex halimus for maintenance. Journal of Zoology London 215, 443-452.
4. Degen, A.A., Kam, M., Khokhlova, I.S., Krasnov, B.R. & Barraclough, T.G. (1998) Average daily metabolic rate of rodents: habitat and dietary comparisons. Functional Ecology 12, 63-73.
5. Degen, A.A., Khokhlova, I.S., Kam, M. & Snider, I. (2002) Energy requirements during reproduction in female common spiny mice (Acomys cahirinus). Journal of Mammalogy 83, 645-651.
6. Derrickson, E.M. (1988) The effect of experimental termination of lactation on subsequent growth in Peromyscus leucopus. Canadian Journal of Zoology 66, 2507-2512.
7. Derting, T.L. (1989) Metabolism and food availability as regulators of production in juvenile cotton rats. Ecology 70, 587-595.
8. Earle, M. & Lavigne, D.M. (1990) Intraspecific variation in body size, metabolic rate, and reproduction of deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus). Canadian Journal of Zoology 68, 381-388.
9. Genoud, M. & Vogel, P. (1990) Energy requirements during reproduction and reproductive efforts in shrews (Soricidae). Journal of Zoology London 220, 41-60.
10. Gittleman, J.L. & Thompson, S.D. (1988) Energy allocation in mammalian reproduction. American Zoologist 28, 863-875.
11. Glazier, D.S. (1985) Relationship between metabolic rate and energy expenditure for lactation in Peromyscus. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 80A, 587-590.
12. Glazier, D.S. (1990) Constraints on the offspring production efficiency of Peromyscus and other rodents. Functional Ecology 4, 223-231.
13. Harvey, P.H., Pagel, M.D. & Rees, J.A. (1991) Mammalian metabolism and life histories. American Naturalist 137, 556-566.
14. Hayes, J.P., Garland, T. Jr & Dohm, M.R. (1992) Individual variation in metabolism and reproduction of Mus: are energetics and life history linked? Functional Ecology 6, 5-14.
15. Hayssen, V. (1984) Basal metabolic rate and the intrinsic rate of increase: an empirical and theoretical reexamination. Oecologia (Berlin) 64, 419-421.
16. Henneman, W.W. (1983) Relationship among body mass, metabolic rate and the intrinsic rate of natural increase in mammals. Oecologia (Berlin) 56, 104-108.
17. Kam, M. & Degen, A.A. (1993) Energetics of lactation and growth in the fat sand rat, Psammomys obesus: new perspectives of resource partitioning and the effect of litter size. Journal of Theoretical Biology 162, 353-369.
18. Kam, M. & Degen, A.A. (1994) Body mass at birth and growth rate of fat sand rat Psammomys obesus pups: effect of litter size and water content of Atriplex halimus consumed by pregnant and lactating females. Functional Ecology 8, 351-357.
19. Kam, M., Khokhlova, I.S. & Degen, A.A. (1997) Granivory and plant selection in desert gerbils of different body size. Ecology 78, 2218-2229.
20. Kaufman, D.W. & Kaufman, G.A. (1987) Reproduction by Peromyscus poloinotus: number, size, and survival of offspring. Journal of Mammalogy 68, 275-280.
21. Kenagy, G.J., Masman, D., Sharbaugh, S. & Nagy, K.A. (1990) Energy expenditure during lactation in relation to litter size in free-living golden-mantled ground squirrels. Journal of Animal Ecology 59, 73-88.
22. Khokhlova, I.S., Krasnov, B.R., Shenbrot, G.I. & Degen, A.A. (1994) Factors affecting seasonal body mass change and habitat distribution in several rodent species of the Negev Highlands, Israel. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 73, 106-114 [in Russian with English abstract].
23. Khokhlova, I.S., Degen, A.A. & Kam, M. (1995) Body size, gender, seed husking and energy requirements in two species of desert gerbilline rodents, Meriones crassus and Gerbillus henleyi. Functional Ecology 9, 720-724.
24. Kleiber, M. (1975) The Fire of Life: An Introduction to Animal Energetics. Kreiger, Huntingdon, NY.
25. König, B. & Markl, H. (1987) Maternal care in house mice I. The weaning strategy as a means for parental manipulation of offspring quality. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 20, 1-9.
26. König, B., Riester, J. & Markl, H. (1988) Maternal care in house mice (Mus musculus) II. The energy cost of lactation as a function of litter size. Journal of Zoology London 216, 95-210.
27. Kunz, T.H. (1987) Post-natal growth and energetics of suckling bats. Recent Advances in the Study of Bats (eds M.B. Fenton, P.A. Racey & J.M.V. Rayner), pp. 395-420. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
28. Leon, M. & Woodside, B. (1983) Energetic limits on reproduction: maternal food intake. Physiological Behaviour 30, 945-957.
29. McClure, P.A. & Randolph, J.C. (1980) Relative allocation of energy to growth and development of homeothermy in the eastern wood rat (Neotoma floridana) and hispid cotton rat (Sigmodon hispidus). Ecological Monographs 50, 199-219.
30. McNab, B.K. (1980) Food habits, energetics, and the population biology of mammals. American Naturalist 116, 106-124.
31. McNab, B.K. (1987) The reproduction of marsupial and eutherian mammals in relation to energy expenditure. Symposium of the Zoological Society, London 57, 29-39.
32. Mendl, M. (1988) The effect of litter size variation on mother-off spring relationships and behavioural and physical development in several mammalian species (principally rodents). Journal of Zoology London 208, 595-614.
33. Millar, J.S. (1978) Energetics of reproduction in Peromyscus leucopus: the cost of lactation. Ecology 59, 1055-1061.
34. Mover, H., Ar, A. & Helwing, S. (1989) Energetic costs of lactation with and without simultaneous pregnancy in the white-toothed shrew Crocidura russula monacha. Physiological Zoology 62, 919-936.
35. Poppitt, S.D., Speakman, J.R. & Racey, P.A. (1994) Energetics of reproduction in the lesser hedgehog tenrec, Echinops telfairi (Martin). Physiological Zoology 67, 976-994.
36. Randolph, P.A., Randolph, J.C., Mattingly, K. & Foster, M.M. (1977) Energy costs of reproduction in the cotton rat, Sigmodon hispidus. Ecology 58, 31-45.
37. Ricklefs, R.E., Konarzewski, M. & Daan, S. (1996) The relationship between basal metabolic rate and daily energy expenditure in birds and mammals. American Naturalist 147, 1047-1071.
38. Robbins, C.T. (1993) Wildlife Feeding and Nutrition. Academic Press, London.
39. Rogowitz, G.L. (1998) Limits to milk flow and energy allocation during lactation of the hispid cotton rat (Sigmodon hispidus). Physiological Zoology 71, 312-320.
40. Speakman, J.R. & McQueenie, J. (1996) Limits to sustained metabolic rate: the link between food intake, basal metabolic rate and morphology in reproducing mice, Mus musculus. Physiological Zoology 69, 746-769.
41. Stephenson, P.J. & Racey, P.A. (1995) Resting metabolic rate and reproduction in the Insectivora. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 112A, 215-223.
42. Tuomi, J., Hakala, T. & Hakioja, E. (1983) Alternative concepts of reproductive effort, costs of reproduction, and selection in life-history evolution. American Zoologist 23, 25-34.
43. Veloso, C. & Bozinovic, F. (2000) Effect of food quality on the energetics of reproduction in a precocial rodent, Octodon degus. Journal of Mammalogy 81, 971-978.
44. Webb, D.P. & McClure, P.A. (1989) Development of heat production in altricial and precocial rodents: implications for the energy allocation hypothesis. Physiological Zoology 62, 1293-1315.
45. Weiner, J. (1987) Limits to energy budget and tactics in energy investments during reproduction in the Djungarian hamster (Phodopus sungorus sungorus, Pallas 1970). Symposium of the Zoological Society, London 57, 167-187.
46. Williams, G.C. (1966) Adaptation and Natural Selection. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.