Is there a linkage between metabolism and personality in small mammals? The root vole (Microtus oeconomus) example

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 378-383

  Lantová, Petra ^a,b   Zub, Karol ^c   Koskela, Esa ^a   Šíchová, Klára ^d   Borowski, Zbigniew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^c MAMMAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^d FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Allocation model; Animal personality; Energy metabolism; Microtus oeconomus; Performance model; Resting metabolic rate (RMR)

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BODY MASS; METABOLIC RATE; METABOLISM; MICROTUS OECONOMUS; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASON; SEX; VOLE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY MASS INDEX; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PERSONALITY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REST; SEASONS;

EID: 79959857889     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2011.04.017     Document Type: Article

References (61)

1. Brown J.H., Gillooly J.F., Allen A.P., Savage U.M., West G.B. Toward a metabolic theory of ecology. Ecology 2004, 85:1771-1789.
2. White C.R., Seymour R.S. Does basal metabolic rate contain a useful signal? Mammalian BMR allometry and correlations with a selection of physiological, ecological, and life-history variables. Physiol Biochem Zool 2004, 77:929-941.
3. Speakman J.R. The physiological costs of reproduction in small mammals. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2007, 363:375-398.
4. Boratynski Z., Koteja P. The association between body mass, metabolic rates and survival of bank voles. Funct Ecol 2009, 23:330-339.
5. Careau V., Bininda-Emonds O.R.P., Thomas D.V., Réale D., Humphries M.M. Exploration strategies map along fast-slow metabolic and life-history continua in muroid rodents. Funct Ecol 2009, 23:150-156.
6. Boratynski Z., Koskela E., Mappes T., Oksanen T.A. Sex-specific selection on energy metabolism - selection coefficients for winter survival. J Evol Biol 2010, 23:1969-1978.
7. McNab B.K. The physiological ecology of vertebrates: a view from energetics 2002, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY.
8. McDevitt R.M., Speakman J.R. Summer acclimatization in the short-tailed field vole, Microtus agrestis. J Comp Physiol B 1996, 166:286-293.
9. Bozinovic F., Rojas J.M., Broitman B.R., Vásquez A. Basal metabolism is correlated with habitat productivity among populations of degus (Octodon degus). Comp Biochem Physiol A 2009, 152:560-564.
10. Speakman J.R., Ergon T.E., Scantlebury M., Reid K.A., Cavagne L., Lambin X. Resting metabolic rate is correlated with daily energy expenditure in free-living voles (Microtus agrestis) but reflects extrinsic rather than intrinsic limits. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2003, 100:14057-14062.
11. Speakman J.R., Król E., Johnson M.S. The functional significance of individual variation in basal metabolic rate. Physiol Biochem Zool 2004, 77:900-915.
12. Król E., Johnson M.E., Speakman J.R. Limits to sustained energy intake. VIII. Resting metabolic rate and organ morphology of laboratory mice lactating at thermoneutrality. J Exp Biol 2003, 206:4283-4291.
13. Bozinovic F., Munoz J.L.P., Cruz-Neto A.P. Intraspecific variability in the basal metabolism rate: testing the food habit hypothesis. Physiol Biochem Zool 2007, 80:452-460.
14. Zub K., Szafranska P.A., Konarzewski M., Redman P., Speakman J.R. Trade-offs between activity and thermoregulation in a small carnivore, the least weasel Mustela nivalis. Proc R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2009, 276:1921-1927.
15. Careau V., Thomas D., Humphries M.M., Réale D. Energy metabolism and animal personality. Oikos 2008, 117:641-653.
16. Johnston S.L., Souter D.M., Tolkamp B.J., Gordon I.J., Illius A.W., Kyriazakis I., et al. Intake compensates for resting metabolic rate variation in female C57BL/6J mice fed high-fat diets. Obesity 2007, 15:600-606.
17. Veenema A.H., Meijer A.C., de Kloet E.R., Koolhaas J.M., Bohus B.G. Differences in basal and stress-induced HPA regulation of wild house mice selected for high and low aggression. Horm Behav 2003, 43:197-204.
18. Jacobson L. Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis regulation. Endocrinol Metab Clin 2005, 34:271-292.
19. Dingemanse N.J., Both C., Drent P.J., Van Oers K., Van Noordwijk A.J. Repeatability and heritability of exploratory behaviour in great tits from the wild. Anim Behav 2002, 64:929-938.
20. Koolhaas J.M., De Boer S.F., Bohus B. Motivational systems or motivational states: behavioural and physiological evidence. Appl Anim Behav Sci 1997, 53:131-143.
21. Réale D., Gallant B.Y., Leblanc M., Festa-Bianchet M. Consistency of temperament in bighorn ewes and correlates with behaviour and life history. Anim Behav 2000, 60:589-597.
22. Gosling S.D., John O.P. Personality dimensions in non-human animals: a cross-species review. Curr Dir Psychol Sci 1999, 8:69-75.
23. Walsh R.N., Cummins R.A. The open-field test: a critical review. Psychol Bull 1976, 83:482-504.
24. Verbeek M.E.M., Drent P.J., Wiepkema P.R. Consistent individual differences in early exploratory behavior of male great tits. Anim Behav 1994, 48:1113-1121.
25. Labocha M.K., Sadowska E.T., Baliga K., Semer A.K., Koteja P. Individual variation and repeatability of basal metabolism in the bank vole, Clethrionomys glareolus. Proc R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2004, 271:367-372.
26. Szafranska P.A., Zub K., Konarzewski M. Long-term repeatability of body mass and resting metabolic rate in free-living weasels, Mustela nivalis. Funct Ecol 2007, 21:731-737.
27. Nespolo R.F., Franco M. Whole-animal metabolic rate is a repeatable trait: a meta-analysis. J Exp Biol 2007, 210:2000-2005.
28. Martin J.G.A., Réale D. Temperament, risk assessment and habituation to novelty in Eastern chipmunk, Tamias striatus. Anim Behav 2008, 75:309-318.
29. Lantová P., Šíchová K., Sedlácek F., Lanta V. Determining behavioural syndromes in voles - the effect of social environment. Ethology 2011, 117:124-132.
30. Korte S.M., Buwalda B., Bouws G.A.H., Koolhaas J.M., Maes F.W., Bohus B. Conditioned neuroendocrine and cardiovascular stress responsiveness accompanying behavioral passivity and activity in aged and in young rats. Physiol Behav 1992, 51:815-822.
31. Koolhaas J.M., Korte S.M., De Boer S.F., Van Der Vegt B.J., Van Reenen C.G., Hopster H., et al. Coping styles in animals: current status in behavior and stress-physiology. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 1999, 23:925-935.
32. Groothuis T.G.G., Carere C. Avian personalities: characterization and epigenesis. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2005, 29:137-150.
33. Speakman J.R. Doubly labelled water: theory and practice 1997, Chapman and Hall.
34. Seppänen E., Tiira K., Huuskonen H., Piironen J. Metabolic rate, growth and aggressiveness in three Atlantic salmon Salmo salar populations. J Fish Biol 2009, 74:562-575.
35. Cutts C.J., Metcalfe N.B., Taylor A.C. Aggression and growth depression in juvenile Atlantic salmon: the consequences of individual variation in standard metabolic rate. J Fish Biol 1998, 52:1026-1037.
36. Lahti K., Huuskonen H., Laurila A., Piironen J. Metabolic rate and aggressiveness between Brown Trout populations. Funct Ecol 2002, 16:167-174.
37. Bell A.M., Henderson L., Huntingford F.A. Behavioral and respiratory responses to stressors in multiple populations of three-spined sticklebacks that differ in predation pressure. J Comp Physiol B 2010, 180:211-220.
38. Biro P.A., Beckmann C., Stamps J. Small within-day increases in temperature affects boldness and alters personality in coral reef fish. Proc R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2010, 277:71-77.
39. Gebczynski A.K., Konarzewski M. Locomotor activity of mice divergently selected for basal metabolic rate: a test of hypotheses on the evolution of endothermy. J Evol Biol 2009, 22:1212-1220.
40. Vaanholt L.M., De Jong B., Garland T., Daan S., Visser G.H. Behavioural and physiological responses to increased foraging effort in male mice. J Exp Biol 2007, 210:2013-2024.
41. Biro P., Stamps J. Do consistent individual differences in metabolic rate promote consistent individual differences in behavior?. Trends Ecol Evol 2010, 25:653-659.
42. Mappes T., Koivula M., Koskela E., Oksanen T.A., Savolainen T., Sinervo B. Frequency and density-dependent selection on life-history strategies - a field experiment. PLoS One 2008, 3:e1687.
43. Sinervo B., Svensson E., Comendant T. Density cycles and an offspring quantity and quality game driven by natural selection. Nature 2000, 406:985-988.
44. Boon A., Réale D., Boutin S. The interaction between personality, offspring fitness and food abundance in North American red squirrels. Ecol Lett 2007, 10:1094-1104.
45. Dingemanse N.J., Both C., Drent P.J., Tinbergen J.M. Fitness consequences of avian personalities in a fluctuating environment. Proc R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2004, 271:847-852.
46. Denenberg V.H. Open-field behavior in the rat: what does it mean?. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1969, 159:852-859.
47. Archer J. Tests for emotionality in rats and mice: a review. Anim Behav 1973, 21:205-235.
48. Stam R., Croiset G., Akkermans L.M.A., Wiegant V.M. Behavioural and intestinal responses to novelty in rats selected for diverging reactivity in the open field test. Behav Brain Res 1997, 88:231-238.
49. Genaro G., Schmidek W.R. Exploratory activity of rats in three different environments. Ethology 2000, 106:849-859.
50. Gebczynski A.K. Patterns of ultradian rhythms of activity and metabolic rate in relation to average daily energy expenditure in root voles. Acta Theriol 2006, 51:345-352.
51. Hill R.W. Determination of oxygen consumption by use of the paramagnetic oxygen analyzer. J Appl Physiol 1972, 33:261-263.
52. Kaiser H.F. Coefficient alpha for a principal component and the Kaiser-Guttman rule. Psychol Rep 1991, 68:855-858.
53. Tabachnick B.G., Fidell L.S. Principal components and factor analysis. Using multivariate statistics 1989, Harper & Row, New York. B.G. Tabachnick (Ed.).
54. Stevens J.P. Applied multivariate statistics for the social sciences 2002, 389-393. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, London. 4th edition.
55. Burnham KP, Anderson DR. Model selection and multimodel inference: a practical information-theoretic approach. 2nd edition Springer, New York; 2002.
56. R development core team R: a language and environment for statistical computing 2008, R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. http://www.R-project.org.
57. Veenema A.H., Meijer O.C., De Kloet E.R., Koolhaas J.M., Bohus B.G. Differences in basal and stress-induced HPA regulation of wild house mice selected for high and low aggression. Horm Behav 2003, 43:197-204.
58. Boratynski Z., Koteja P. The natural and sexual selection on body size and metabolic rates in wild population. Funct Ecol 2010, 24:1252-1261.
59. Stamps J. Growth-mortality tradeoffs and 'personality' traits in animals. Ecol Lett 2007, 10:355-363.
60. Biro P.A., Stamps J. Are animal personality traits linked to life-history productivity?. Trends Ecol Evol 2008, 23:361-368.
61. Speakman J. The cost of living: field metabolic rates of small mammals. Adv Ecol Res 2000, 30:177-294.