The energetic consequences of dietary specialization in populations of the garter snake, Thamnophis elegans

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 209, Issue 16, 2006, Pages 3164-3169

  Britt, E J ^a   Hicks, J W ^a   Bennett, A F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Assimilation efficiency; Banana slug; Dietary specialization; Digestive energetics; SDA; Thamnophis

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYPRINIFORMES; DIET; DIGESTION; ENERGY METABOLISM; FOOD PREFERENCE; GASTROPOD; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; PHYSIOLOGY; SNAKE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; COLUBRIDAE; CYPRINIDAE; DIET; DIGESTION; ENERGY METABOLISM; FOOD PREFERENCES; GASTROPODA; NUTRITIVE VALUE;

ANURA; ARIOLIMAX COLUMBIANUS; GASTROPODA; HIRUDINIDA; RHINICHTHYS OSCULUS; SERPENTES; THAMNOPHIS; THAMNOPHIS ELEGANS;

EID: 33749161200     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.02366     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Alfaro, M. E. and Arnold, S. J. (2001). Molecular systematics and evolution of Regina and thamnophiine snakes. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 21, 408-423.
2. Angilletta, M. J., Wilson, R. S., Navas, C. A. and James, R. S. (2003). Trade-offs and the evolution of thermal reaction norms. Trends Ecol. Evol. 18, 234-240.
3. Arnold, S. J. (1977). Polymormism and geographic variation in the feeding behavior of the garter snake Thamnophis elegans. Science 197, 676-678.
4. Arnold, S. J. (1981a). The microevolution of foraging behavior. In Foraging Behavior: Ecological, Ethological, and Psychological Approaches (ed. A. Kamil and T. Sargent), pp. 409-453. New York, London: Garland STPM Press.
5. Arnold, S. J. (1981b). Behavioral variation in natural populations. I. Phenotypic, genetic and environmental correlations between chemoreceptive responses to prey in the garter snake, Thamnophis elegans. Evolution 35, 489-509.
6. Arnold, S. J. (1993). Foraging theory and prey-size-predator size relations in snakes. In Snakes: Ecology and Behavior (ed. R. A. Seigal and J. T. Collins), pp. 87-115. New York: McGraw-Hill.
7. Arnold, S. J. and Phillips, P. C. (1999). Hierachical comparison of genetic variance-covariance matrices. II. Coastal-inland divergence in the garter snake, Thamnophis elegans. Evolution 53, 1516-1527.
8. Bear, R. A. (1994). Ecological energetics of digestion in the garter snake, Thamnophis sirtalis. MD thesis, Cleveland State University, USA.
9. Brody, S. (1974). Bioenergetics and Growth. New York: Hafner Publishing Company.
10. Bronikowski, A. M. (1997). The sources and consequences of individual growth rate variation in the western terrestrial garter snake. PhD thesis, University of Chicago, USA.
11. Bronikowski, A. M. (2000). Experimental evidence for the adaptive evolution of growth rate in the garter snake Thamnophis elegans. Evolution 54, 1760-1767.
12. Bronikowski, A. M. and Arnold, S. J. (1999). The evolutionary ecology of life history variation in the garter snake Thamnophis elegans. Ecology 80, 2314-2325.
13. Bronikowski, A. M. and Arnold, S. J. (2001). Cytochrome b phylogeny does not match subspecific classification in the western terrestrial garter snake, Thamnophis elegans. Copeia 2, 508-513.
14. Denny, M. (1980). The role of gastropod pedal mucus in locomotion. Nature 285, 160-161.
15. de Queiroz, A., Lawson, R. and Lemos-Espinal, J. (2002). Phylogenetic relationships of North American garter snakes (Thamnophis) based on four mitochondrial genes: how much DNA sequence is enough? Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 22, 315-329.
16. Drummond, H. and Burghardt, G. M. (1983). Geographic variation in the foraging behavior of the garter snake, Thamnophis elegans. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 12, 43-48.
17. Fox, L. R. and Morrow, P. A. (1981). Specialization: species property or local phenomenon? Science 211, 887-893.
18. Fry, J. D. (1996). The evolution of host specialization: are trade-offs overrated? Am. Nat. 148, S84-S107.
19. Futuyma, D. J. and Moreno, G. (1988). The evolution of ecological specialization. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 19, 207-233.
20. Gessaman, J. A. and Nagy, K. A. (1988). Energy metabolism: errors in gas-exchange conversion factors. Physiol. Zool. 61, 507-513.
21. Hailey, A. and Davies, P. M. C. (1987). Digestion, specific dynamic action, and ecological energetics of Natrix maura. Herpetol. J. 1, 159-166.
22. Jayne, B. C. and Bennett, A. (1990). Selection on locomotor performance capacity in a natural population of garter snakes. Evolution 44, 1204-1229.
23. Kephart, D. G. and Arnold, S. J. (1982). Garter snake diets in a fluctuating environment: a seven year study. Ecology 63, 1232-1236.
24. McPeek, M. A. (1996). Trade-offs, food web structure, and the coexistence of habitat specialists and generalists. Am. Nat. 148, S124-S138.
25. Paine, R. T. (1971). The measurement and application of the calorie to ecological problems. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 2, 145-164.
26. Peterson, C. R. (1987). Daily variation in the body temperatures of free-ranging garter snakes. Ecology 68, 160-169.
27. Peterson, C. C., Walton, M. B. and Bennett, A. F. (1998). Intrapopulation variation in ecological energetics of the garter snake Thamnophis sirtalis, with analysis of the precision of doubly labeled water measurements. Physiol. Zool. 71, 333-349.
28. Peterson, C. C., Walton, B. M. and Bennett, A. F. (1999). Metabolic costs of growth in free-living garter snakes and the energy budgets of ectotherms. Funct. Ecol. 13, 500-507.
29. Rossman, D. A., Ford, N. B. and Seigal, R. A. (1996). The Garter Snakes. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma.
30. Stevenson, R. D., Peterson, C. R. and Tsuji, J. S. (1985). The thermal dependence of locomotion, tongue flicking, digestion, and oxygen consumption in the wandering garter snake. Physiol. Zool. 58, 46-57.
31. CO2, and evaporative water loss with a flow-through mask. J. Appl. Physiol. 42, 120-123.