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Nutritional Ecology, Foraging Strategies and Food Selection

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Oxidative Stress and Hormesis in Evolutionary Ecology and Physiology

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Nutrition influences many aspects of animal life history, behaviour and physiology. Food is a source of various classes of chemicals that influence the antioxidant defences and the cell resistance to oxidative stress of animals. Not only food quality but also the investment in foraging strategies can expose animals to variable degrees of oxidative challenges and antioxidant rewards. For these reasons, the link between diet and oxidative stress has been the focus of numerous ecological studies in the last decades. In this chapter, I examine the role that oxidative stress and hormesis have played in the evolution of foraging strategies, food selection and general nutritional ecology. I then discuss how the maternal strategies of nutrient or antioxidant allocation may shape the phenotype of offspring and influence their evolutionary fitness. Finally, I examine the links among hormesis, starvation-induced stress and essentiality of nutrients.

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Costantini, D. (2014). Nutritional Ecology, Foraging Strategies and Food Selection. In: Oxidative Stress and Hormesis in Evolutionary Ecology and Physiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54663-1_4

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