Estimating the relationship between fitness and metabolic rate: which rate should we use?

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As physiologists seek to better understand how and why metabolism varies, they have focused on how metabolic rate covaries with fitness-that is, selection. Evolutionary biologists have developed a sophisticated framework for exploring selection, but there are particular challenges associated with estimating selection on metabolic rate owing to its allometric relationship with body mass. Most researchers estimate...

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