Thyroid hormones correlate with Basal metabolic rate but not field metabolic rate in a wild bird species.

International audience 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 t...

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Main Authors: Welcker, Jorg, Chastel, Olivier, Gabrielsen, Geir W, Guillaumin, Jerome, Kitaysky, Alexander S, Speakman, John R, Tremblay, Yann, Bech, Claus
Other Authors: Norvegian Polar Research Institute (NPRI), Norwegian Polar Institute, Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), Centre d'Études Biologiques de Chizé (CEBC), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology Beijing, Chinese Academy of Sciences Changchun Branch (CAS), Ecosystèmes Marins Exploités (UMR EME), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Université de Montpellier (UM), Department of Biology Trondheim (IBI NTNU), Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim (NTNU), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)-Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
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spelling ftunimontpellier:oai:HAL:hal-00801168v1 2024-04-21T07:58:49+00:00 Thyroid hormones correlate with Basal metabolic rate but not field metabolic rate in a wild bird species. Welcker, Jorg Chastel, Olivier Gabrielsen, Geir W Guillaumin, Jerome Kitaysky, Alexander S Speakman, John R Tremblay, Yann Bech, Claus Norvegian Polar Research Institute (NPRI) Norwegian Polar Institute Institute of Arctic Biology University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) Centre d'Études Biologiques de Chizé (CEBC) Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences University of Aberdeen Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology Beijing Chinese Academy of Sciences Changchun Branch (CAS) Ecosystèmes Marins Exploités (UMR EME) Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Université de Montpellier (UM) Department of Biology Trondheim (IBI NTNU) Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim (NTNU) Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)-Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) 2013 https://hal.science/hal-00801168 https://hal.science/hal-00801168/document https://hal.science/hal-00801168/file/pone.0056229.pdf https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0056229 en eng HAL CCSD Public Library of Science info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0056229 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/pmid/23437096 hal-00801168 https://hal.science/hal-00801168 https://hal.science/hal-00801168/document https://hal.science/hal-00801168/file/pone.0056229.pdf doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0056229 PUBMED: 23437096 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess ISSN: 1932-6203 EISSN: 1932-6203 PLoS ONE https://hal.science/hal-00801168 PLoS ONE, 2013, 8 (2), pp.e56229. ⟨10.1371/journal.pone.0056229⟩ [SDE]Environmental Sciences info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2013 ftunimontpellier https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0056229 2024-03-27T16:05:10Z International audience 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 (R(2) = 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. Article in Journal/Newspaper Black-legged Kittiwake rissa tridactyla Université de Montpellier: HAL PLoS ONE 8 2 e56229
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Welcker, Jorg
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.
topic_facet [SDE]Environmental Sciences
description International audience 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 (R(2) = 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.
author2 Norvegian Polar Research Institute (NPRI)
Norwegian Polar Institute
Institute of Arctic Biology
University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF)
Centre d'Études Biologiques de Chizé (CEBC)
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences
University of Aberdeen
Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology Beijing
Chinese Academy of Sciences Changchun Branch (CAS)
Ecosystèmes Marins Exploités (UMR EME)
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Université de Montpellier (UM)
Department of Biology Trondheim (IBI NTNU)
Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim (NTNU)
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)-Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
format Article in Journal/Newspaper
author Welcker, Jorg
Chastel, Olivier
Gabrielsen, Geir W
Guillaumin, Jerome
Kitaysky, Alexander S
Speakman, John R
Tremblay, Yann
Bech, Claus
author_facet Welcker, Jorg
Chastel, Olivier
Gabrielsen, Geir W
Guillaumin, Jerome
Kitaysky, Alexander S
Speakman, John R
Tremblay, Yann
Bech, Claus
author_sort Welcker, Jorg
title Thyroid hormones correlate with Basal metabolic rate but not field metabolic rate in a wild bird species.
title_short Thyroid hormones correlate with Basal metabolic rate but not field metabolic rate in a wild bird species.
title_full Thyroid hormones correlate with Basal metabolic rate but not field metabolic rate in a wild bird species.
title_fullStr Thyroid hormones correlate with Basal metabolic rate but not field metabolic rate in a wild bird species.
title_full_unstemmed Thyroid hormones correlate with Basal metabolic rate but not field metabolic rate in a wild bird species.
title_sort thyroid hormones correlate with basal metabolic rate but not field metabolic rate in a wild bird species.
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