Metabolic rate evolves rapidly and in parallel with the pace of life history

Nature Communications

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Auer, Sonya K ^a   Dick, Cynthia A ^b   Metcalfe, Neil B ^a   Reznick, David N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYPRINID; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EVOLUTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LIFE HISTORY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; METABOLISM; PREDATION;

GUPPY; HUMAN; LIFE HISTORY; METABOLIC RATE; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; ANIMAL; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; FEMALE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MALE; METABOLISM; POECILIA; PREGNANCY;

POECILIA RETICULATA;

ANIMALS; BASAL METABOLISM; FEMALE; LIFE HISTORY TRAITS; MALE; POECILIA; PREGNANCY;

EID: 85039945798     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-02514-z     Document Type: Article

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