... at least 3 months of laboratory acclimation. The following results were obtained. First, there was significant difference in RMR between sexes when body-weight effects were factored out. Second, significant local variation in RMR was detected by analyses of both variance and covariance, with one population...

..., insects often show marked sexual dimorphism (larger females). Thus, in this study on D. melanogaster , we characterized the effects of fly density and sex on both mass-specific routine oxygen consumption ( V̇O 2 ) and hypoxia tolerance (P Crit ). Females had significantly lower routine V̇O 2 (∼4 µl O 2 mg...