Solving the conundrum of intra-specific variation in metabolic rate: A multidisciplinary conceptual and methodological toolkit: New technical developments are opening the door to an understanding of why metabolic rate varies among individual animals of a species: New technical developments are opening the door to an understanding of why metabolic rate varies among individual animals of a species

Neil B Metcalfe¹, Jakob Bellman², Pierre Bize³, Pierre U Blier⁴, Amélie Crespel⁵, Neal J Dawson¹, Ruth E Dunn⁶, Lewis G Halsey⁷, Wendy R Hood⁸, Mark Hopkins⁹, Shaun S Killen¹, Darryl McLennan¹, Lauren E Nadler¹⁰, Julie J H Nati¹¹, Matthew J Noakes¹², Tommy Norin¹³, Susan E Ozanne¹⁴, Malcolm Peaker¹⁵, Amanda K Pettersen^{1

16}, Anna Przybylska-Piech¹⁷, Alann Rathery⁷, Charlotte Récapet¹⁸, Enrique Rodríguez¹⁹, Karine Salin²⁰, Antoine Stier²¹, Elisa Thoral²², Klaas R Westerterp²³, Margriet S Westerterp-Plantenga²³, Michał S Wojciechowski¹⁷, Pat Monaghan¹

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¹ School of Biodiversity, One Health & Veterinary Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
² Department of Physiology, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
³ Swiss Ornithological Institute, Sempach, Switzerland.
⁴ Département de Biologie, Université de Québec à Rimouski, Rimouski, Canada.
⁵ Department of Biology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
⁶ Lancaster Environment Centre, University of Lancaster, Lancaster, UK.
⁷ School of Life and Health Sciences, University of Roehampton, London, UK.
⁸ Department of Biological Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, USA.
⁹ School of Food Science and Nutrition, Leeds University, Leeds, UK.
¹⁰ Ocean and Earth Science, NOC, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
¹¹ Ocean Sciences Center, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John's, Canada.
¹² School of Animal, Plant, and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
¹³ DTU Aqua: National Institute of Aquatic Resources, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark.
¹⁴ Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
¹⁵ 13 Upper Crofts, Alloway, UK.
¹⁶ School of Life & Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
¹⁷ Department of Vertebrate Zoology & Ecology, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland.
¹⁸ Universite de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, E2S UPPA, INRAE, ECOBIOP, Saint-Pée-sur-, Nivelle, France.
¹⁹ Department of Genetics, Evolution & Environment, University College London, London, UK.
²⁰ IFREMER, Univ Brest, CNRS, IRD, Laboratory of Environmental Marine Sciences, Plouzané, France.
²¹ Univ Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, ENTPE, UMR 5023 LEHNA, Villeurbanne, France.
²² Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
²³ Department of Nutrition & Movement Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.

PMID: 37042115
DOI: 10.1002/bies.202300026

Solving the conundrum of intra-specific variation in metabolic rate: A multidisciplinary conceptual and methodological toolkit: New technical developments are opening the door to an understanding of why metabolic rate varies among individual animals of a species: New technical developments are opening the door to an understanding of why metabolic rate varies among individual animals of a species

Neil B Metcalfe et al. Bioessays. 2023 Jun.

. 2023 Jun;45(6):e2300026.

doi: 10.1002/bies.202300026. Epub 2023 Apr 12.

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¹ School of Biodiversity, One Health & Veterinary Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
² Department of Physiology, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
³ Swiss Ornithological Institute, Sempach, Switzerland.
⁴ Département de Biologie, Université de Québec à Rimouski, Rimouski, Canada.
⁵ Department of Biology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
⁶ Lancaster Environment Centre, University of Lancaster, Lancaster, UK.
⁷ School of Life and Health Sciences, University of Roehampton, London, UK.
⁸ Department of Biological Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, USA.
⁹ School of Food Science and Nutrition, Leeds University, Leeds, UK.
¹⁰ Ocean and Earth Science, NOC, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
¹¹ Ocean Sciences Center, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John's, Canada.
¹² School of Animal, Plant, and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
¹³ DTU Aqua: National Institute of Aquatic Resources, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark.
¹⁴ Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
¹⁵ 13 Upper Crofts, Alloway, UK.
¹⁶ School of Life & Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
¹⁷ Department of Vertebrate Zoology & Ecology, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland.
¹⁸ Universite de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, E2S UPPA, INRAE, ECOBIOP, Saint-Pée-sur-, Nivelle, France.
¹⁹ Department of Genetics, Evolution & Environment, University College London, London, UK.
²⁰ IFREMER, Univ Brest, CNRS, IRD, Laboratory of Environmental Marine Sciences, Plouzané, France.
²¹ Univ Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, ENTPE, UMR 5023 LEHNA, Villeurbanne, France.
²² Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
²³ Department of Nutrition & Movement Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.

PMID: 37042115
DOI: 10.1002/bies.202300026

Abstract

Researchers from diverse disciplines, including organismal and cellular physiology, sports science, human nutrition, evolution and ecology, have sought to understand the causes and consequences of the surprising variation in metabolic rate found among and within individual animals of the same species. Research in this area has been hampered by differences in approach, terminology and methodology, and the context in which measurements are made. Recent advances provide important opportunities to identify and address the key questions in the field. By bringing together researchers from different areas of biology and biomedicine, we describe and evaluate these developments and the insights they could yield, highlighting the need for more standardisation across disciplines. We conclude with a list of important questions that can now be addressed by developing a common conceptual and methodological toolkit for studies on metabolic variation in animals.

Keywords: ATP; energetics; energy; mitochondria; nutrition; physiology; respirometry.

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