The Role of Metabolic Phenotype in the Capacity to Balance Competing Energetic Demands

Given the critical role of metabolism in the life history of all organisms, there is particular interest in understanding the relationship between individual metabolic phenotypes and the capacity to partition energy into competing life history traits. Such relationships could be predictive of individual phenotypic performances throughout life. Here, we were specifically interested in whether an individual fish’s metabolic phenotype can shape its propensity to feed following a significant stressor (2-min exhaustive exercise challenge). Such a relationship would provide insight into previous intraspecific observations linking high metabolism with faster growth. Using a teleost fish, the barramundi (Lates calcarifer), we predicted that individuals with high standard metabolic rates (SMRs) and maximal metabolic rates (MMRs) would be faster to recover and resume feeding after exercise. Contrary to our prediction, neither SMR nor MMR was correlated with latency to feed after exercise (food was offered at 0.5, 1.5, 3, and 18 h after exercise). Only time after exercise and individual fish ID were significant predictors of latency to feed. Measurements of MMR from the same individuals (three measurements spaced 8–12 d apart) revealed a moderate degree of repeatability (R=0.319). We propose that interindividual differences in biochemical and endocrine processes may be more influential than whole-organism metabolic phenotype in mediating feeding latency after exercise.

• Publication year

  2022

• Venue

  Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

• Publication date

  2022-09-23

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1086/722478PMID 36921270
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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