Thyroid hormones correlate with basal metabolic rate but not field metabolic rate in a wild bird species
Thyroid hormones (TH) are known to stimulate in vitro oxygen consumption of tissues in mammals and birds. Hence, in many laboratory studies a positive relationship between TH concentrations and basal metabolic rate (BMR) has been demonstrated whereas evidence from species in the wild is scarce. Even...
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ftntnutrondheimi:oai:ntnuopen.ntnu.no:11250/2360507 2023-05-15T15:44:57+02:00 Thyroid hormones correlate with basal metabolic rate but not field metabolic rate in a wild bird species Welcker, Jorg Otto Chastel, Olivier Gabrielsen, Geir W. Guillaumin, Jerome Kitaysky, Alexander S. Speakman, John R. Tremblay, Yann Bech, Claus 2015-11-16T13:57:36Z http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2360507 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0056229 eng eng Public Library of Science PLoS ONE 2013, 8(2) urn:issn:1932-6203 http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2360507 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0056229 cristin:1014580 8 PLoS ONE 2 Journal article Peer reviewed 2015 ftntnutrondheimi https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0056229 2019-09-17T06:51:14Z Thyroid hormones (TH) are known to stimulate in vitro oxygen consumption of tissues in mammals and birds. Hence, in many laboratory studies a positive relationship between TH concentrations and basal metabolic rate (BMR) has been demonstrated whereas evidence from species in the wild is scarce. Even though basal and field metabolic rates (FMR) are often thought to be intrinsically linked it is still unknown whether a relationship between TH and FMR exists. Here we determine the relationship between the primary thyroid hormone triiodothyronine (T3) with both BMR and FMR in a wild bird species, the black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla). As predicted we found a strong and positive relationship between plasma concentrations of T3 and both BMR and mass-independent BMR with coefficients of determination ranging from 0.36 to 0.60. In contrast there was no association of T3 levels with either whole-body or mass-independent FMR (R2 = 0.06 and 0.02, respectively). In accordance with in vitro studies our data suggests that TH play an important role in modulating BMR and may serve as a proxy for basal metabolism in wild birds. However, the lack of a relationship between TH and FMR indicates that levels of physical activity in kittiwakes are largely independent of TH concentrations and support recent studies that cast doubt on a direct linkage between BMR and FMR. © 2013 Welcker et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Article in Journal/Newspaper Black-legged Kittiwake rissa tridactyla NTNU Open Archive (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) PLoS ONE 8 2 e56229 |
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Thyroid hormones (TH) are known to stimulate in vitro oxygen consumption of tissues in mammals and birds. Hence, in many laboratory studies a positive relationship between TH concentrations and basal metabolic rate (BMR) has been demonstrated whereas evidence from species in the wild is scarce. Even though basal and field metabolic rates (FMR) are often thought to be intrinsically linked it is still unknown whether a relationship between TH and FMR exists. Here we determine the relationship between the primary thyroid hormone triiodothyronine (T3) with both BMR and FMR in a wild bird species, the black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla). As predicted we found a strong and positive relationship between plasma concentrations of T3 and both BMR and mass-independent BMR with coefficients of determination ranging from 0.36 to 0.60. In contrast there was no association of T3 levels with either whole-body or mass-independent FMR (R2 = 0.06 and 0.02, respectively). In accordance with in vitro studies our data suggests that TH play an important role in modulating BMR and may serve as a proxy for basal metabolism in wild birds. However, the lack of a relationship between TH and FMR indicates that levels of physical activity in kittiwakes are largely independent of TH concentrations and support recent studies that cast doubt on a direct linkage between BMR and FMR. © 2013 Welcker et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
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Welcker, Jorg Otto Chastel, Olivier Gabrielsen, Geir W. Guillaumin, Jerome Kitaysky, Alexander S. Speakman, John R. Tremblay, Yann Bech, Claus Thyroid hormones correlate with basal metabolic rate but not field metabolic rate in a wild bird species |
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Welcker, Jorg Otto Chastel, Olivier Gabrielsen, Geir W. Guillaumin, Jerome Kitaysky, Alexander S. Speakman, John R. Tremblay, Yann Bech, Claus |
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Thyroid hormones correlate with basal metabolic rate but not field metabolic rate in a wild bird species |
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Thyroid hormones correlate with basal metabolic rate but not field metabolic rate in a wild bird species |
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Thyroid hormones correlate with basal metabolic rate but not field metabolic rate in a wild bird species |
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Thyroid hormones correlate with basal metabolic rate but not field metabolic rate in a wild bird species |
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Thyroid hormones correlate with basal metabolic rate but not field metabolic rate in a wild bird species |
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thyroid hormones correlate with basal metabolic rate but not field metabolic rate in a wild bird species |
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