Male mealworm beetles increase resting metabolic rate under terminal investment
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Male mealworm beetles increase resting metabolic rate under terminal investment.
Harmful parasite infestation can cause energetically costly behavioural and immunological responses, with the potential to reduce host fitness and survival. It has been hypothesized that the energetic costs of infection cause resting metabolic rate (RMR) to increase. Furthermore, under terminal investment theory, individuals exposed to pathogens should allocate resources to current reproduction...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Evolutionary Biology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1010-061X
DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12318