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- Title
Metabolic rate evolves rapidly and in parallel with the pace of life history.
- Authors
Auer, Sonya K.; Metcalfe, Neil B.; Dick, Cynthia A.; Reznick, David N.
- Abstract
Metabolic rates and life history strategies are both thought to set the "pace of life", but whether they evolve in tandem is not well understood. Here, using a common garden experiment that compares replicate paired populations, we show that Trinidadian guppy (Poecilia reticulata) populations that evolved a fast-paced life history in high-predation environments have consistently higher metabolic rates than guppies that evolved a slowpaced life history in low-predation environments. Furthermore, by transplanting guppies from high- to low-predation environments, we show that metabolic rate evolves in parallel with the pace of life history, at a rapid rate, and in the same direction as found for naturally occurring populations. Together, these multiple lines of inference provide evidence for a tight evolutionary coupling between metabolism and the pace of life history.
- Subjects
BIOTRANSFORMATION (Metabolism); GUPPIES; PREDATION; NATURE &; nurture; METABOLISM
- Publication
Nature Communications, 2018, Vol 9, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2041-1723
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41467-017-02514-z