... that they are in fact not consistently related in lizards. Locomotor capacity Aerobic capacity Anaerobic capacity Exercise training Locomotion Performance Locomotor capacities are key targets of selection and important predictors of fitness in a variety of animal species (reviewed in Husak and Fox...

...://www.biologists.com/user-licence-1-1/ Summary: Zebra finches show differential responses in erythrocyte variables to long- and short-term physical activity. Short-term phenotypic flexibility in red blood cell size probably influences blood properties and blood functions. Birds Exercise training Acute...

...Yufeng Zhang; Travis Carter; Kathleen Eyster; David L. Swanson ABSTRACT Summit maximum thermoregulatory metabolic rate ( M sum ) and maximum exercise metabolic rate (MMR) both increase in response to acute cold or exercise training in birds. Because lipids are the main fuel supporting both...

...) and maximum (MMR, maximum exercise metabolic rate) metabolic rates are functions of skeletal muscle activity, correlations between these measurements and their mechanistic underpinnings might occur. To examine whether such correlations occur, we measured the effects of experimental cold and exercise training...

..., the control group had a higher maximum oxygen consumption( Ṁ o 2max ; 244μmol O 2 min -1 kg -1 ), cardiac output( Q̇ max ; 65 ml min -1 kg -1 ) and blood oxygen content( C a O 2 ; 15 ml O 2 dl -1 ). Exercise training caused a 50% increase in Ṁ o 2max without changing either U crit or C a O 2 , even though...

... velocity ( U crit ). The fish used in this study had previously been exposed to one of two different exercise-training regimes, swimming for 8 months at either 1.5bl s −1 (HS) or 0.5bl s −1 (LS) (where bl is body length). During this period, growth rate was the same in both groups. At rest, q IA...