Warm-blooded fishes swim faster and farther than cold-blooded counterparts -- ScienceDaily

Warm-blooded fishes swim faster and farther than cold-blooded counterparts -- ScienceDaily

Now, a new study by an international team of scientists that includes UC Santa Barbara research biologist Jenn Caselle has demonstrated that species possessing the ability to warm their core -- a process called endothermy -- are able to swim two and a half times faster than those whose body temperature doesn't change. In addition, these species, which include some sharks and tunas, can also swim twice as far -- ranges comparable to those of warm-blooded animals such as penguins and other marine mammals. The researchers' findings appear in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

"The cost of moving faster and farther is high so there has to be an ecological reason that outweighs the physiological expenditure," Caselle said. "These endothermic fishes are putting a lot more energy into each unit of movement than their cold-blooded counterparts are.

"In fact, the estimated cost of transport is twice as high, but in return they're getting benefits from that increased swimming speed and wider range of migration," she added. "We hypothesize these gains allow these endotherms to be more efficient hunters and to span larger areas in their migration, which probably provides feeding and reproduction benefits."

To conduct the study, the team combined existing data with new information they obtained by attaching sensors -- designed and built by lead author Yuuki Watanabe of Japan's National Institute of Polar Research -- to several sharks in different locations around the world. The researchers' analysis suggests that warmer "red" muscle endothermy permits speedier cruising and greater endurance, which in turn enables these fishes to swim long distances relatively quickly. This characteristic, the marine scientists speculate, allows the fishes to take advantage of seasonally variable food sources.

Of those examined in the study, four shark species are endothermic -- salmon, porbeagle, white and shortfin mako -- as are five species of tuna -- yellow fin, southern bluefin, Atlantic bluefin, Pacific bluefin and albacore. One species in particular, the white shark, has a migration range greater than that of the humpback whale.

Of specific interest, Caselle noted, is the fact that endothermy evolved independently in these distinctly different groups of fishes. The two taxonomic groups diverged more than 450 million years ago, and their common ancestor was most likely cold-blooded. "The mechanisms of convergent evolution aren't always the same, although in this case they pretty much are," Caselle said. "There are only a limited number of ways a fish can rewire.

"This research begins to shed light on possible reasons why these endothermic fish evolved in this way," Caselle concluded. "Our paper contains almost every piece of electronically recorded information in the literature right now -- and that's not a lot. We'd like to be able to expand the use of sensor-captured data to other groups of fishes in order to build a dataset we could analyze to see what different species are doing in terms of their movements and speed."

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