The physiological costs of reproduction in small mammals

By J. Speakman. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2008

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Subfields: Agronomy and Crop Science, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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Caloric restriction. (2011, background): “Reproduction, however, costs energy (Speakman, 2008).”
Associations between over-winter survival and resting metabolic rate in juvenile North American red squirrels (2010, neutral): “However, intra-specifically, correla- tions are weaker or are not consistent (Hayes & Garland 1995; Ksiazek, Konarzewski & Lapo 2004; Johnson et al. 2007).”
Increased brood size leads to persistent eroded telomeres (2014, background): “The underlying mechanisms accounting for costs of reproduction on longevity remain however little understood and are the current topic of intense investigations (Harshman and Zera, 2007; Speakman, 2008; Monaghan et al., 2009).”
Benefits and costs of parental care (2012, background): “1), although even these studies may not necessarily imply long-term costs, as the mass changes may be the result of tissue remodelling (e.g. as occurs in capital breeders; Speakman 2008).”
Oxidative stress as a mediator of life history trade-offs: mechanisms, measurements and interpretation. (2009, background): “O X I D A T I V E S T R E S S A N D R E P R O D U C T I O N Reproduction can be one of the most physiologically demanding periods of an animal s life (Speakman 2008), but there is surprisingly little direct evidence that it increases oxidative stress.”
The energetic and oxidative costs of reproduction in a free‐ranging rodent (2011, background): “Given that lactation is an energetically demanding period and that large litters require more energy investment than small litters, we also predicted that DEE and oxidative damage should increase with litter size (Alonso-Alvarez et al. 2010; reviewed in Speakman 2008).”
Do social networks of female northern long-eared bats vary with reproductive period and age? (2010, background): “For example, social thermoregulation and large group sizes during lactation likely reduce the need to use torpor, which negatively impacts milk production and thus offspring survival (Racey 1973; Racey and Swift 1981; Speakman 2008; Tuttle and Stevenson 1982; Wilde et al. 1999; Willis 2006; Willis a”
The Challenges of Integrating Oxidative Stress into Life-History Biology (2011, background): “For example, although enhanced reproductive investment through lactation or postnatal provisioning increases the basal metabolic rate (Speakman 2008), there is little evidence that greater allocation to reproduction (or other life-history traits) actually increases the leakage of ROS from the…”
Female–female aggression around mating: an extra cost of sociality in a multimale primate society (2011, background): “Additionally, lactating females initiated and faced the lowest amounts of aggression despite the peak energetic costs of reproduction during lactation (rather than gestation) (Speakman 2008).”