Journal
MARINE AND FRESHWATER BEHAVIOUR AND PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 47, Issue 3, Pages 205-209Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/10236244.2014.927630
Keywords
signal crayfish; Pacifastacus leniusculus; oxygen consumption; resting metabolic rate; molting; consistency
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- Academy of Finland [127398]
- Emil Aaltonen Foundation
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Although the temporal consistency of resting metabolic rate in individual animals is generally considered to be a universal phenomenon, studies on invertebrates are still scarce. Here, we studied the repeatability of standard metabolic rate in the signal crayfish (Pacifastacus leniusculus). We measured oxygen consumption twice on the same individuals, on average in 97-day intervals. At intermolt stage, the standard metabolic rate was a repeatable trait. However, molting increased significantly the minimum metabolic rate, thus emphasizing the role of animal physiological state in determining the rate of metabolism.
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