ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2018
The benefit of being still: energy savings during winter dormancy in fish come from inactivity and the cold, not from metabolic rate depression.
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- Inactivity and the passive slowing effect of cold on resting metabolism as the primary drivers of energy savings in overwintering fishes.The Journal of experimental biology · 2022Article
- Cold-induced metabolic depression in cunner (Tautogolabrus adspersus): A multifaceted cellular event.PloS one · 2022Article
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Abstract
Winter dormancy is used by many animals to survive the cold and food-poor high-latitude winter. Metabolic rate depression, an active downregulation of resting cellular energy turnover and thus standard (resting) metabolic rate (SMR), is a unifying strategy underlying the persistence of organisms in such energy-limited environments, including hibernating endotherms. However, controversy exists about its involvement in winter-dormant aquatic ectotherms. To address this debate, we conducted simultaneous, multi-day measurements of whole-animal oxygen consumption rate (a proxy of metabolic rate) and spontaneous movement in a model winter-dormant marine fish, the cunner (
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