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Energy metabolism and personality in wild-caught fall field crickets

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PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR
卷 199, 期 -, 页码 173-181

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PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2018.11.023

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Behavioural syndromes; Boldness; Multivariate mixed models; Resting metabolic rate; CO2-production

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  1. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
  2. Canada Research Chair funds

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Standard metabolic rate (SMR) is known to be highly variable across levels of biological organisation (e.g., species, populations, among individuals, within individuals). Some of the variation in SMR can be attributed to factors such as diet, temperature, and body mass, yet much of the residual variation in SMR remains unexplained. Intuitively, we can expect SMR to co-vary with personality, but the rapidly accumulating empirical evidence on this topic remains equivocal. The goal of this study was to test for a link between SMR and a behavioural syndrome at the among-individual level in wild-caught fall field crickets (Gryllus pennsylvanicus). Paired measurements of SMR and two behavioural traits were repeatedly taken over a two-month period, thus allowing to estimate the among-individual correlations (rind) separately from the residual (within-individual) correlations. The two behavioural traits (latency to exit a refuge in a novel environment and freezing time following a stressful stimulus) were significantly and moderately repeatable and were found to be part of a syndrome, as indicated by a strong and positive among-individual correlation (r(ind) = 0.82 0.27). Yet, only latency to exit was significantly and positively correlated with SMR (r(ind) = 0.45 0.21), suggesting that the link between boldness and SMR may be driven by individual differences in responses to novelty and not to simulated predatory cues. Since we found that bold individuals (short latency to exit) consistently had a lower SMR than shy individuals (long latency to exit), our results go against the pace-of-life syndrome hypothesis. Instead, our results suggest the presence of constrains in the energy budgets of crickets, which generated an allocation trade-off between energy spent on physical activity vs. maintenance costs (SMR).

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