Possible link between brain size and flight mode in birds: Does soaring ease the energetic limitation of the brain?

K Shiomi - Evolution, 2022 - academic.oup.com
… and locomotion in birds by testing the relationship between … energetic cost could be a driver
of encephalization during … as the expensive tissue hypothesis to explain encephalization in …

Intraspecific energetic trade-offs and costs of encephalization vary from interspecific relationships in three species of mormyrid electric fishes

KV Sukhum, MK Freiler, BA Carlson - Brain Behavior and Evolution, 2019 - karger.com
… Although these relationships were not significant in any species after correcting for multiple
hypothesis testing, the p value was <0.05 in B. brachyistius, suggesting a trend between …

Long life evolves in large-brained bird lineages

D Jiménez-Ortega, N Kolm, S Immler, AA Maklakov… - …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
… and developmental costs, then these costs should be easier … Our main goal here was to test
if prolonged longevity in birds … , our results also suggest a trade-off between clutch size and …

Body mass variation is negatively associated with brain size: Evidence for the fat-brain trade-off in anurans

Y Huang, CL Mai, WB Liao, A Kotrschal - Evolution, 2020 - academic.oup.com
… Here, we test this idea of a fat-brain trade-off in 38 species of … , snake, and/or bird
predation; medium risk—species … costs of locomotion. However, we did not find evidence for a …

[HTML][HTML] A farewell to the encephalization quotient: a new brain size measure for comparative primate cognition

CP Van Schaik, Z Triki, R Bshary… - Brain Behavior and …, 2021 - karger.com
… primates and presumably mammals and birds in general. The use … In these tests, we did not
need to correct for phylogenetic … lineages, and generate and test hypotheses on its causes. …

[HTML][HTML] Large-brained birds lay smaller but heavier clutches

S Li, X Liu, G Li, X Du - Avian Research, 2023 - Elsevier
… the energy consumption of reproduction or other costly … Our study shows that there is no
general energy trade-off … be a general requirement of encephalization in vertebrates. Besides, a …

Brain size, gut size and cognitive abilities: the energy trade-offs tested in artificial selection experiment

A Goncerzewicz, T Górkiewicz… - … of the Royal …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… We tested the EB hypothesis by analysing correlated … were the energetic costs of these
enlarged brains (encephalization) … , we tested for (1) the existence of the brain–gut trade off and …

Parental provisioning drives brain size in birds

M Griesser, SM Drobniak, SM Graber… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
… is energetically costly but adequate cognitive benefits arise only after a delay. We therefore
… on birds, a lineage that is well suited for an integrated test of these different hypotheses. …

The evolution of brain size in ectothermic tetrapods: large brain mass trades-off with lifespan in reptiles

G Stark, D Pincheira-Donoso - Evolutionary Biology, 2022 - Springer
… size has mostly been investigated in birds and mammals. Thus, … lifespan to the list of costs
of increased encephalization (ie, a … Whereas our findings revealed a trade-off between brain-…

[HTML][HTML] Exceptionally steep brain-body evolutionary allometry underlies the unique encephalization of osteoglossiformes

M Tsuboi - Brain Behavior and Evolution, 2021 - karger.com
… of this model are used to test for hypotheses about adaptation and coevolution. The core …
the paradox of encephalization under allometric constraints in these lineages, but birds and …