Phenotypic integration of morphology and energetic performance under routine capacities: a study in the leaf-eared mouse Phyllotis darwini.

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A major goal of evolutionary physiology is to understand the intrinsic and the extrinsic factors that impose limitations on an animal's energy budget. Although natural selection acts upon organismal traits such as performance (e.g., burst, sustained metabolic rates), from a mechanistic perspective, organismal performance results from the integrated functioning of different levels of biological organization....

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