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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Scaling of resting and maximum hopping metabolic rate throughout the life cycle of the locust Locusta migratoria |
Author: | Snelling, E. Seymour, R. Matthews, P. Runciman, S. White, C. |
Citation: | The Journal of Experimental Biology, 2011; 214(19):3218-3224 |
Publisher: | Company of Biologists Ltd |
Issue Date: | 2011 |
ISSN: | 0022-0949 1477-9145 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Edward P. Snelling, Roger S. Seymour, Philip G. D. Matthews, Sue Runciman and Craig R. White |
Abstract: | The hemimetabolous migratory locust Locusta migratoria progresses through five instars to the adult, increasing in size from 0.02 to 0.95 g, a 45-fold change. Hopping locomotion occurs at all life stages and is supported by aerobic metabolism and provision of oxygen through the tracheal system. This allometric study investigates the effect of body mass (Mb) on oxygen consumption rate (MO2, μmol h(-1)) to establish resting metabolic rate (MRO2), maximum metabolic rate during hopping (MMO2) and maximum metabolic rate of the hopping muscles (MMO2,hop) in first instar, third instar, fifth instar and adult locusts. Oxygen consumption rates increased throughout development according to the allometric equations MRO2=30.1Mb(0.83±0.02), MMO2=155Mb(1.01±0.02), MMO2,hop=120Mb(1.07±0.02) and, if adults are excluded, MMO2,juv=136Mb(0.97±0.02) and MMO2,juv,hop=103Mb(1.02±0.02). Increasing body mass by 20-45% with attached weights did not increase mass-specific MMO2 significantly at any life stage, although mean mass-specific hopping MO2 was slightly higher (ca. 8%) when juvenile data were pooled. The allometric exponents for all measures of metabolic rate are much greater than 0.75, and therefore do not support West, Brown and Enquist’s optimised fractal network model, which predicts that metabolism scales with a 3⁄4-power exponent owing to limitations in the rate at which resources can be transported within the body. |
Keywords: | allometry fractal network model hopping insect locust maximum metabolic rate respirometry weight. |
Rights: | © 2011. |
DOI: | 10.1242/jeb.058420 |
Grant ID: | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP0879605 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP0879605 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jeb.058420 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 5 Earth and Environmental Sciences publications |
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