standard metabolic rate
- Role of the gut microbiome in mediating standard metabolic rate after dietary shifts in the viviparous cockroach, Diploptera punctata
Summary: Dietary shifts resulted in differential emergences of microbial taxa in the gut microbiomes of Diploptera punctata, impacting microbial essential amino acid provisioning functions that may underlie differences in determined host metabolic phenotypes, measured as standard metabolic rate.
- The utility and determination of Pcrit in fishes
Summary: We outline why Pcrit is a useful and informative comparator of hypoxia tolerance in fishes, provided it is determined using standardized respirometry methods and sound statistical approaches.
- The fallacy of the Pcrit – are there more useful alternatives?
Summary: This Commentary argues that the concept of the critical oxygen tension in water-breathers is fundamentally flawed for many reasons, and it presents the case for more useful alternatives.
- Effects of food availability on metabolism, behaviour, growth and their relationships in a triploid carp
Summary: Food availability significantly affects physiological, behavioural and ecological processes in triploid carp by altering the trade-off between metabolism and growth.