Metabolic scaling has diversified among species, despite an evolutionary constraint within species
Beaman, J. E.; Ortiz-Barrientos, D.; Monro, K.; Hall, M. D.; White, C. R.
10.1101/2020.05.26.117846 bioRxivShow abstract
Metabolic rate scales disproportionally with body mass, such that the energetic cost of living is relatively lower in larger organisms. Theory emphasises the importance of fixed physical constraints on metabolic scaling, yet empirical data are lacking with which to assess how evolutionary processes (e.g. mutation, drift, selection) contribute to the observed variation in metabolic scaling across the tree of life. Using a large-scale quantitative genetic study of growth in cockroaches, we show that ontogenetic metabolic scaling is evolutionarily constrained due to an absence of additive genetic variation in juvenile metabolic rate and mass. Using a phylogenetic analysis, we also show that ontogenetic metabolic scaling is more similar among closely related species than among distant relatives, suggesting that the constraints on metabolic scaling are subject to change during lineage diversification. Our results are consistent with growing evidence that there is strong stabilising selection on combinations of mass and metabolic rate within species.
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