Data from: Independence among physiological traits suggests flexibility in the face of ecological demands on phenotypes
Phenotypic flexibility allows animals to adjust their physiology to diverse environmental conditions encountered over the year. Examining how these varying traits covary gives insights into potential constraints or freedoms that may shape evolutionary trajectories. In this study we examined relation...
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ftdryad:oai:v1.datadryad.org:10255/dryad.39434 2023-05-15T15:48:26+02:00 Data from: Independence among physiological traits suggests flexibility in the face of ecological demands on phenotypes Buehler, Deborah M. Vézina, Francois Goymann, Wolfgang Schwabl, Ingrid Versteegh, Maaike Tieleman, B. Irene Piersma, Theunis 2012-05-01T14:47:35Z http://hdl.handle.net/10255/dryad.39434 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.4q6f1 unknown doi:10.5061/dryad.4q6f1/1 doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2012.02543.x PMID:22686517 doi:10.5061/dryad.4q6f1 Buehler DM, Vézina F, Goymann W, Schwabl I, Versteegh M, Tieleman BI, Piersma T (2012) Independence among physiological traits suggests flexibility in the face of ecological demands on phenotypes. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 25(8): 1600-1613. http://hdl.handle.net/10255/dryad.39434 Birds Evolutionary physiology Phenotypic plasticity Article 2012 ftdryad https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.4q6f1 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.4q6f1/1 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2012.02543.x 2020-01-01T14:56:26Z Phenotypic flexibility allows animals to adjust their physiology to diverse environmental conditions encountered over the year. Examining how these varying traits covary gives insights into potential constraints or freedoms that may shape evolutionary trajectories. In this study we examined relationships among hematocrit, baseline corticosterone concentration, constitutive immune function and basal metabolic rate in red knot Calidris canutus islandica individuals subjected to experimentally manipulated temperature treatments over an entire annual cycle. If covariation among traits is constrained, we predict consistent covariation within and among individuals. We further predict consistent correlations between physiological and metabolic traits if constraints underlie species level patterns found along the slow-fast pace-of-life continuum. We found no consistent correlations among hematocrit, baseline corticosterone concentration, immune function and basal metabolic rate either within or among individuals. This provides no evidence for constraints limiting relationships among these measures of the cardiovascular, endocrine, immune and metabolic systems in individual red knots. Rather, our data suggest that knots are free to adjust individual parts of their physiology independently. This makes good sense if one places the animal within its ecological context where different aspects of the environment might put different pressures on different aspects of physiology. Article in Journal/Newspaper Calidris canutus Red Knot Dryad Digital Repository (Duke University) |
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Phenotypic flexibility allows animals to adjust their physiology to diverse environmental conditions encountered over the year. Examining how these varying traits covary gives insights into potential constraints or freedoms that may shape evolutionary trajectories. In this study we examined relationships among hematocrit, baseline corticosterone concentration, constitutive immune function and basal metabolic rate in red knot Calidris canutus islandica individuals subjected to experimentally manipulated temperature treatments over an entire annual cycle. If covariation among traits is constrained, we predict consistent covariation within and among individuals. We further predict consistent correlations between physiological and metabolic traits if constraints underlie species level patterns found along the slow-fast pace-of-life continuum. We found no consistent correlations among hematocrit, baseline corticosterone concentration, immune function and basal metabolic rate either within or among individuals. This provides no evidence for constraints limiting relationships among these measures of the cardiovascular, endocrine, immune and metabolic systems in individual red knots. Rather, our data suggest that knots are free to adjust individual parts of their physiology independently. This makes good sense if one places the animal within its ecological context where different aspects of the environment might put different pressures on different aspects of physiology. |
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Buehler, Deborah M. Vézina, Francois Goymann, Wolfgang Schwabl, Ingrid Versteegh, Maaike Tieleman, B. Irene Piersma, Theunis |
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Buehler, Deborah M. Vézina, Francois Goymann, Wolfgang Schwabl, Ingrid Versteegh, Maaike Tieleman, B. Irene Piersma, Theunis |
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Data from: Independence among physiological traits suggests flexibility in the face of ecological demands on phenotypes |
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Data from: Independence among physiological traits suggests flexibility in the face of ecological demands on phenotypes |
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Data from: Independence among physiological traits suggests flexibility in the face of ecological demands on phenotypes |
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doi:10.5061/dryad.4q6f1/1 doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2012.02543.x PMID:22686517 doi:10.5061/dryad.4q6f1 Buehler DM, Vézina F, Goymann W, Schwabl I, Versteegh M, Tieleman BI, Piersma T (2012) Independence among physiological traits suggests flexibility in the face of ecological demands on phenotypes. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 25(8): 1600-1613. http://hdl.handle.net/10255/dryad.39434 |
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