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Metabolic rate associates with, but does not generate covariation between, behaviours in western stutter-trilling crickets, Gryllus integer.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 29 Mar 2017
Krams Indrikis A, Niemelä Petri T, Trakimas Giedrius, Krams Ronalds, Burghardt Gordon M, Krama Tatjana, Kuusik Aare, Mänd Marika, Rantala Markus J, Mänd Raivo, Kekäläinen Jukka, Sirkka Ilkka, Luoto Severi, Kortet Raine
Abstract excerpt
The causes and consequences of among-individual variation and covariation in behaviours are of substantial interest to behavioural ecology, but the proximate mechanisms underpinning this (co)variation are still unclear. Previous research suggests metabolic rate as a potential proximate mechanism to explain behavioural covariation. We measured the resting metabolic rate (RMR), boldness and exploration in western...
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