Projects funded by the NCN
Brain size and cognitive abilities of laboratory mice divergently selected for Basal or Peak Metabolic Rate
2015/17/B/NZ8/02484
Keywords:
brain size "Expensive Tissue' hypothesis cognitive abilities
Descriptors:
- NZ8_1: Evolutionary biology
Panel:
NZ8 - Evolutionary and environmental biology: evolution, ecology, population biology, biodiversity, biogeography
Host institution :
Uniwersytet w Białymstoku, Wydział Biologiczno-Chemiczny
woj. podlaskie
Principal investigator (from the host institution):
Number of co-investigators in the project: 3
Call: OPUS 9 - announced on 2015-03-16
Amount awarded: 415 470 PLN
Project start date (Y-m-d): 2016-03-01
Project end date (Y-m-d): 2018-08-31
Project duration:: 30 months (the same as in the proposal)
Project status: Project settled
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- Publication in academic press/journals (2)
- Coevolution of body size and metabolic rate in vertebrates: a life-history perspectiveAuthors:Jan Kozłowski, Marek Konarzewski, Marcin CzarnoleskiAcademic press:Biological Reviews (rok: 2020, tom: 96, strony: 45316), Wydawca: ohn Wiley & SonsStatus:PublishedDOI:10.1111/brv.12615 - link to the publication
- Brain size, gut size and cognitive abilities: the energy trade-offs tested in artificial selection experimentAuthors:Anna Goncerzewicz,Tomasz Górkiewicz, Jakub M. Dzik, Ewelina Knapska, Marek KonarzewskiAcademic press:Procceedings Royal Soc. Lond. B (rok: 2022, tom: 289, strony: 000-000), Wydawca: The Royal Society PublishingStatus:PublishedDOI:10.1098/rspb.2021.2747 - link to the publication