Long-term effects of manipulated natal brood size on metabolic rate in zebra finches

Biology Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 478-480

  Verhulst, Simon ^a   Holveck, Marie Jeanne ^b   Riebel, Katharina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Brood size manipulation; Developmental stress; Metabolic programming; Metabolic syndrome; Taeniopygia guttata

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BROOD SIZE; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FITNESS; METABOLISM; REARING;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FITNESS; METABOLIC RATE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; REARING; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

AVES; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

EID: 33748635614     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2006.0496     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Bateson, P. et al. 2004 Developmental plasticity and human health. Nature 430, 419-421. (doi:10.1038/nature02725)
2. Becker, W. A. 1984 A manual of quantitative genetics. Pullman, WA: Academic Enterprises.
3. Cuthill, I. C. 2005 The study of function in behavioural ecology. Anim. Biol. 55, 399-418. (doi:10.1163/157075605774840923)
4. de Kogel, C. H. 1997 Long-term effects of brood size manipulation on morphological development and sex-specific mortality of offspring. J. Anim. Ecol. 66, 167-178.
5. Deerenberg, C., de Kogel, C. H. & Overkamp, G. J. F. 1996 Cost of reproduction in the zebra finch Taeniopygia guttata: manipulation of brood size in the laboratory. J. Avian Biol. 27, 321-326.
6. Desai, M. & Hales, C. N. 1997 Role of fetal metabolism and infant growth in programming metabolism in later life. Biol. Rev. 72, 329-348. (doi:10.1017/S0006323196 005026)
7. Gebhardt-Henrich, S. G. & Richner, H. 1998 Causes of growth variation and its consequences for fitness. In Avian growth and development. Evolution within the altricial-precocial spectrum (ed. J. M. Starck & R. E. Ricklefs), pp. 324-339. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
8. Gluckman, P. D., Hanson, M. A., Spencer, H. G. & Bateson, P. 2005 Environmental influences during development and their later consequences for health and disease: implications for the interpretation of empirical studies. Proc. R. Soc. B 272, 671-677. (doi:10.1098/rspb.2004.3001)
9. Lessells, C. M. 1991 The evolution of life histories. In Behavioural ecology: an evolutionary approach (ed. J. R. Krebs & N. B. Davies), pp. 32-68. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Scientific Publications.
10. Lessells, C. M. & Boag, P. T. 1987 Unrepeatable repeatabilities: a common mistake. Auk 104, 116-121.
11. Lindström, J. 1999 Early development and fitness in birds and mammals. Trends Ecol. Evol. 14, 343-349.
12. Lummaa, V. & Glutton-Brock, T. 2002 Early development, survival and reproduction in humans. Trends Ecol. Evol. 17, 141-147. (doi:10.1016/S0169- 5347(01)02414-4)
13. Martins, T. L. F. 2004 Sex-specific growth rates in zebra finch nestlings: a possible mechanism for sex ratio adjustment. Behav. Ecol. 15, 174-180. (doi:10.1093/beheco/arg094)
14. Råberg, L., Stjernman, M. & Nilsson, J. A. 2005 Sex and environmental sensitivity in blue tit nestlings. Oecologia 145, 496-503. (doi:10.1007/s00442-005-0133-1)
15. Rønning, B., Moe, B. & Bech, C. 2005 Long-term repeatability makes basal metabolic rate a likely heritable trait in the zebra finch Taeniopygia guttata. J. Exp. Biol. 208, 4663-4669. (doi:10.1242/jeb.01941)
16. Speakman, J. R., Ergon, T., Cavanagh, R., Reid, K., Scantlebury, D. M. & Lambin, X. 2003 Resting and daily energy expenditures of free-living field voles are positively correlated but reflect extrinsic rather than intrinsic effects. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 100, 14057-14062. (doi:10.1073/pnas. 2235671100)
17. Speakman, J. R., Król, E. & Johnson, M. S. 2004a The functional significance of individual variation in basal metabolic rate. Phys. Biochem. Zool. 77, 900-915. (doi:10.1086/427059)
18. Speakman, J. R. et al. 2004b Uncoupled and surviving: individual mice with high metabolism have greater mitochondrial uncoupling and live longer. Aging Cell 3, 87-95. (doi:10.1111/j.1474-9728.2004.00097.x)
19. Trivers, R. L. & Willard, D. E. 1973 Natural selection of parental ability to vary the sex ratio of offspring. Science 179, 90-92.
20. Verhulst, S., Riedstra, B. & Wiersma, P. 2005 Brood size and immunity costs in zebra finches. J. Avian Biol. 36, 22-30. (doi:10.1111/j.0908-8857. 2005.03342.x)
21. Vickers, M. H., Breier, B. H., Cutfield, W. S., Hofman, P. L. & Gluckman, P. D. 2000 Fetal origins of hyperphagia, obesity, and hypertension and postnatal amplification by hypercaloric nutrition. Am. J. Physiol. Endocrinol. Metab. 279, E83-E87.
22. Williams, T. D. & Vézina, F. 2001 Reproductive energy expenditure, intraspecific variation, and fitness. Curr. Ornithol. 16, 355-405.