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Record W2899201414 · doi:10.20381/ruor-22635

Performance Trade-Offs in Wild White-Footed Mice (Peromyscus Leucopus)

2018· dissertation· en· W2899201414 on OpenAlexfundno aff
Ilias Berberi

Bibliographic record

VenueuO Research (University of Ottawa) · 2018
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicAnimal Ecology and Behavior Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersQueen's University
KeywordsPeromyscusWhite (mutation)ZoologyBiologyGeographyGeneGenetics

Abstract

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Various aspects of performance (e.g., sprint speed, grip strength) are thought to be important determinants of the success of animals in natural activities such as foraging, mating, and escaping from predators. However, it is generally known that morphological properties enhancing one type of performance (e.g., speed) can lead to a reduction in another (e.g., strength). Such performance trade-offs have been quantified at the inter-specific level, but evidence at the inter-individual level remains equivocal. To test for the presence of a performance trade-off, I initiated a study on wild white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus). In summer 2016, I captured a total of 186 individuals, 87 of which were repeatedly phenotyped for grip strength and sprint speed. A significant positive relationship was found between body mass and grip strength (but not for sprint speed). Individual differences in performance were repeatable through time for both grip strength and sprint speed. Using a bivariate mixed model, I detected a significant negative correlation between grip strength and sprint speed at the among-individual level. By contrast, the within-individual correlation between grip strength and sprint speed tended to be positive, suggesting that some unquantified aspects of the mouse phenotype (e.g., body condition, age) may have a positive effect on both performance traits. Given the relatively low repeatability of grip strength and sprint speed, a failure to properly partition the correlation at the among- and within-individual level generates a counter-intuitive, positive correlation. This study is one the first to detect a performance trade-off at the among-individual level in a wild animal population.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.001
Threshold uncertainty score0.003

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.033
GPT teacher head0.288
Teacher spread0.255 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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