...Michaël Beaulieu; Sylvère Mboumba; Eric Willaume; Peter M. Kappeler; Marie J. E. Charpentier High social rank is expected to incur fitness costs under unstable social conditions. A disruption of the oxidative balance may underlie such effects, but how markers of oxidative stress vary in relation...

... limits, symmorphosis) and explored relationships between basal metabolic rate (BMR), aerobic capacity and social rank. Males had a lower BMR, a higher and a greater aerobic scope than females. Females possessed larger peritoneal and reproductive organs, while males had larger hearts, lungs and leg...