...Jennifer M. Clark; Allen G. Gibbs Previous studies have shown that selection for starvation resistance in Drosophila melanogaster results in delayed eclosion and increased adult fat stores. It is assumed that these traits are caused by the starvation selection pressure, but its mechanism is unknown...

... transport, metabolic processes and neuroprotective pathways likely induced by the metabolic stress of fasting. Behavior Hypoxia Parental care Feeding Reproductive strategy Starvation Transcriptome National Institutes of Health http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000002 NIGMS R15-DK116224...

... Summary: Dryland mammals facing climate change are encountering increasing heat as well as reduced water and food availability. We discuss these compound effects on performance in mammals of varying body size. Dehydration Homeostasis Osmoregulation Starvation Thermoregulation Drylands...

... to conclude an absence of the dietary restriction longevity effect. Ageing Dietary restriction Fruit fly Overfeeding Reaction norm Starvation Dietary restriction (DR), the limitation of food intake but avoidance of malnutrition, extends an organism's lifespan. The generality of the DR...

... release remains low until a threshold level of mitochondrial inactivity is exceeded. Free electron leak ROS/ATP ratio Oxidative phosphorylation Reactive oxygen species Skeletal muscle Starvation Bird Many physiological mechanisms, such as modulation of lipid mobilization and oxidation...

... behaviour and survive a very long period of starvation. As mitochondrial metabolism represents the main physiological link between the endogenous energy store and animal performance, the aim of this study was to determine how a very long, natural period of fasting affected skeletal muscle mitochondrial...

...-living African striped mice: a negative relationship exists in the moist season but not the dry season. Triiodothyronine Metabolism Energetics Fasting Starvation Drought Thyroid hormones are important regulatory hormones that affect a multitude of physiological processes...

... . 10.1111/j.1095-8649.1992.tb02697.x Byström , P. , Andersson , J. , Kiessling , A. and Eriksson , L. O. ( 2006 ). Size and temperature dependent foraging capacities and metabolism: consequences for winter starvation mortality in fish . Oikos   115 , 43 - 52 . 10.1111/j.2006.0030...

... winter, but are instead carefully kept in store for episodes of acute starvation during winter storms ( Mortensen and Blix, 1985 ). It follows that the ptarmigans [and Arctic foxes ( Fuglesteg et al., 2006 )] seem to reduce their fat reserves according to a seasonally changing set-point for body mass...

...; this strategy can be explained by the dynamics of structural and reserve biomass. Scleractinia Respiration Porites spp. Resource limitation Starvation Metabolic depression Metabolic depression is a widely observed phenomenon in which organisms reduce metabolic rate in response to certain...

... density-dependent phases of the desert locust Schistocerca gregaria throughout exposure to an experimental treatment of combined dehydration and starvation stress, and subsequent rehydration. We hypothesized that, under stressful conditions, the more stress-resistant gregarious locusts would maintain DGCs...

...Pierre-Axel Monternier; Anaïs Fongy; Frédéric Hervant; Jocelyne Drai; Delphine Collin-Chavagnac; Jean-Louis Rouanet; Damien Roussel ABSTRACT Starvation is particularly challenging for endotherms that remain active in cold environments or during winter. The aim of this study was to determine whether...

... no competing financial interests. 13 2 2014 1 6 2014 © 2014. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2014 Oyster Crassostrea gigas sNPF Energy metabolism Reproduction Starvation Peptides of the short neuropeptide F (sNPF) family have been identified in a broad range...

... interests. 24 2 2014 2 5 2014 © 2014. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2014 Bird Skeletal muscle Mitochondria Energy efficiency Starvation Spontaneous fast is a major characteristic of the annual cycle of sea birds when breeding or moulting on land, whereas...

... stress and defense responses to exogenous stressors. In order to rigorously examine correlations between pre-adult development time and other life history traits, we assayed pre-adult survivorship, starvation and desiccation resistance, body size and body weight, fecundity and adult lifespan in faster...

.... 22 10 2012 28 3 2013 © 2013. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2013 antioxidants hormesis Nox4 oxidative stress starvation renin–angiotensin system Spontaneous long-term fasting is an integral part of the life history of phocid seals ( Castellini and Rea, 1992...

...Bradley L. Baumgarner; Bruce R. Cooper SUMMARY This study was conducted to evaluate the use of a two-dimensional gas chromatography/time-of-flight mass spectrometry (GC×GC/TOF-MS) metabolomic platform to comprehensively analyze the effect of starvation on whole-animal metabolism in rainbow trout...

... metabolic rate and water balance in insects and other terrestrial arthropods. * Author for correspondence ( jst@sun.ac.za ) 11 5 2010 © 2010. 2010 metabolic depression respirometry water balance acclimatization climate change starvation desiccation Investigations of gas...

..., GLUT2 is most highly expressed in liver with lower levels noted in intestine and kidney. Food deprivation for 2 months was used as a vehicle to monitor GLUT expression at different blood glucose levels. Starvation resulted in a decrease in blood glucose and liver glycogen that recovered following 20...

...Anne-Catherine Mailleux; Claire Detrain; Jean-Louis Deneubourg SUMMARY The decision for an ant forager to launch recruitment is governed by an internal response threshold. Here, we demonstrate that this threshold (the desired volume) triggering trail-laying increases under starvation...