Abstract
Tissue turnover is endogenous energy flow and may play a regulatory role in the metabolic system of an organism. We developed a general growth model addressing potential effect of tissue turnover on energy acquisition and partitioning. We applied the model to estimate energy assimilation of lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) in Lake Michigan and compared the model with a commonly used complex model. Both models are expansions of the Pütter - von Bertalanffy growth model. The new model suggested a consistent decreasing trend in energy net conversion efficiency (NCE) for somatic growth versus body energy. The complex model suggested that NCE is relatively stable in early ages and decreases slowly in comparison with the pattern suggested by the new model. The new model estimated higher specific assimilation rate and NCE for gonadal growth than for somatic growth of mature fish. The complex model did not distinguish gonadal growth from somatic growth. For a lake trout growing from the start of age-1 to the end of age-10, our new model suggested a total energy assimilation 25% higher than the complex model. The above comparisons support the inference that tissue turnover is an important bioenergetic component. Inclusion of tissue turnover in bioenergetic modeling analyses may be critical for studying the linkages among individual growth, reproduction, and population dynamics.
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