Individual differences in the energy cost of self-maintenance (resting metabolic rate, RMR)
are substantial and the focus of an emerging research area. These differences may …

Basal metabolic rate (BMR) is the rate of metabolism of a resting, postabsorptive, non-
reproductive, adult bird or mammal, measured during the inactive circadian phase at a …

Short-term evolutionary potential depends on the additive genetic variance in the
population. The additive variance is often measured as heritability, the fraction of the total …

Biodiversity is increasingly subjected to human‐induced changes of the environment. To
persist, populations continually have to adapt to these often stressful changes including …

Environments are changing rapidly, and to cope with these changes, organisms have to
adapt. Adaptation can take many shapes and occur at different speeds, depending on the …

The extent to which mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) variation is involved in adaptive
evolutionary change is currently being reevaluated. In particular, emerging evidence …

There is increasing evidence that intense fishing pressure is not only depleting fish stocks
but also causing evolutionary changes to fish populations. In particular, body size and …

Interactions between mitochondrial and nuclear gene products that underlie eukaryotic
energy metabolism can cause the fitness effects of mutations in one genome to be …

The accelerating pace of global biodiversity loss is exacerbated by habitat fragmentation
and subsequent inbreeding in small populations. To address this problem, conservation …

Inbreeding results in more homozygous offspring that should suffer reduced fitness, but it
can be difficult to quantify these costs for several reasons. First, inbreeding depression may …