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Comparison of metabolic scaling between triploid and diploid common carp

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Ploidy level affects both the cell size and metabolic rate (MR) of organisms. The present study aimed to examine whether ploidy levels cause differences in cell surface area (SA), MR and metabolic scaling. The resting MR (RMR), red blood cell SA (SARBC), red blood cell count (RBCC), gill SA (GSA), and ventilation frequency (VF) were measured in diploid and triploid common carp with different body masses (M). The results showed that both M and ploidy level affected the RMR, GSA, VF, and SARBC, with interactions between M and ploidy level. The triploids had larger SARBC but lower RBCC than those of the diploids. The SARBC increased weakly but significantly with increasing M, by an exponent of 0.043, in the triploids but did not increase in the diploids. The RMR of the triploids and diploids scaled with M, by exponents of 0.696 and 1.007, respectively. The RMR was higher in the triploids than the diploids. The GSA scaled with M, with an exponent of 0.906 in the triploids and an exponent of 1.043 in the diploids. The VF scaled with M by an exponent of − 0.305 in the triploids but showed no correlation with M in the diploids. The larger SARBC and RMR and smaller scaling exponents of both the GSA and VF of the triploids were consistent with the finding that the bR was smaller in the triploids than in the diploids. This suggests that the ploidy-induced changes of SA and SA scaling affect the metabolic scaling of fish.

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We thank Mr. Bo Zhang for his help with fish collection.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 31672287).

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All the authors contributed to the study conception. YL designed and supervised the experiments. The experiment was performed by YZ, WX, and YX. Data analysis was performed by YZ, YX, PZ, and JZ. The first draft of the manuscript was written by YZ and YL. All the authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. All the authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Zhu, Y., Xiong, W., Xu, Y. et al. Comparison of metabolic scaling between triploid and diploid common carp. J Comp Physiol B 191, 711–719 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00360-021-01365-x

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