Discover Community Create You

Loading publication...

Noodle always counts identifier-free feature events for service operation. With your permission, Google Analytics can also estimate audience and engagement. Search text, publication identifiers, cookies, IP addresses and browser fingerprints are never included in Noodle's first-party event counters.

Privacy details

Article

Basal metabolic rate can evolve independently of morphological and behavioural traits.

Heredity - 1 Sept 2013

Mathot K J, Martin K, Kempenaers B, Forstmeier W

Abstract excerpt

Quantitative genetic analyses of basal metabolic rate (BMR) can inform us about the evolvability of the trait by providing estimates of heritability, and also of genetic correlations with other traits that may constrain the ability of BMR to respond to selection. Here, we studied a captive population of zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) in which selection lines for male courtship rate have been established. We...

Read the complete abstract on PubMed

Topics

Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.

Share to Basal Metabolism
Share to Biological Evolution
Share to Courtship

Methodology Data sources Editorial policy Privacy About Contact Helena Bioinformatics

Share to Finches

Share to Genetic Drift

Share to Genetic Variation

Share to Norway

Share to Quantitative Trait, Heritable

Source

Open in PubMed Open full text

Identifiers

PMID: 23632896
DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2013.35
PMCID: PMC3746821

Provenance

PubMed metadata and Literature Corpus relationships. Corpus snapshot updated 5 Sept 2026. Manifest publication-graph-cohort-2026-09-05.1.

Source receipt: pubmed, retrieved 5 Sept 2026.

Related research

Semantic proximity does not establish scientific evidence.

Research trail→

Click a neighbor to travelStep 1 · 12 closest

Basal metabolic rate can evolve independently of morphological and behavioural traits.PMID 23632896Read ↗

Basal metabolic rate: heritability and genetic correlations with morphological traits in the zebra finch.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Evolutionary relationships between metabolism and behaviour require genetic correlations.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Constraints on the evolution of attractive traits: genetic (co)variance of zebra finch bill colour.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Understanding variation in metabolic rate.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Genic capture and the genetic basis of sexually selected traits in the zebra finch.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Annual cycles of metabolic rate are genetically determined but can be shifted by phenotypic flexibility.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Heritability of resting metabolic rate in a wild population of blue tits.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Correlates of male fitness in captive zebra finches--a comparison of methods to disentangle genetic and environmental effects.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Evolution in a changing environment: a case study with great tit fledging mass.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Genetic modulation of energy metabolism in birds through mitochondrial function.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Estimating the relationship between fitness and metabolic rate: which rate should we use?Semantic proximity Read ↗

Zebra finches bi-directionally selected for personality differ in repeatability of corticosterone and testosterone.Semantic proximity Read ↗

⌁Select a neighboring publication to make it the new centre.