Migratory birds are physiologically specialized to accumulate massive fat stores (up to 50–
60% of body mass), and to transport and oxidize fatty acids at very high rates to sustain flight …

Long-distance migrants have evolved specific adaptations that make their athletic records
possible. Unique mechanisms explaining their amazing capacity for endurance exercise …

Fatty acids are essential for life because they are essential components of cellular
membranes. Lower animals can synthesize all four classes of fatty acids from non-lipid …

Muscle performance depends on the supply of metabolic fuels and disposal of end-products.
Using circulating metabolite concentrations to infer changes in fluxes is highly unreliable …

Animals must regulate the fluxes of multiple fuels to support changing metabolic rates that
result from variation in physiological circumstances. The aim of fuel selection strategies is to …

Current understanding of lactate metabolism in fish is based almost entirely on the
interpretation of concentration measurements that cannot be used to infer changes in flux …

Farmed seabass have higher adiposity than their wild counterparts and this is often
attributed to carbohydrate (CHO) feeding. Whether this reflects a reduction in fat oxidation …

The sustainable growth of fish aquaculture will require the procurement of non-marine feed
sources. Glycerol is a potential feed supplement whose metabolism may spare the …

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small, non-protein coding RNA sequences, which are found in
most eukaryotes. Since their initial discovery, miRNAs have emerged as important …

Gemfibrozil (GEM) is a fibrate drug consistently found in effluents from sewage treatment
plants. This study characterizes the pharmacological effects of GEM on the plasma …