Grosiak, MartaKoteja, PawełHambly, CatherineSpeakman, John RSadowska, Edyta T2025-01-232025-01-232024-02-01Grosiak, M, Koteja, P, Hambly, C, Speakman, J R & Sadowska, E T 2024, 'Limits to sustained energy intake. XXXIV. Can the heat dissipation limit (HDL) theory explain reproductive aging?', The Journal of experimental biology, vol. 227, no. 4, jeb246592. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.2465920022-0949https://hdl.handle.net/2164/24915Acknowledgements We would like to acknowledge Sylwester Kunysz for providing invaluable technical assistance during the experiment. We are very grateful to the many technicians and students who helped with animal maintenance, especially Barbara Bober-Sowa and Katarzyna Baliga–Klimczyk. We thank members of our research team for their comments on the manuscript. We also would like to convey our thanks to the reviewers for valuable comments on our manuscript. The work would not be possible without free access to the animal maintenance facility and laboratories of the Institute of Environmental Sciences (Faculty of Biology, Jagiellonian University), the work of technical staff maintaining the facilities, and administration support from both the Institute secretary and the University Research Support Centre. Some results and excerpts from the Discussion in this paper are reproduced from the PhD thesis of M.G. (Grosiak, 2023).121797402engArtificial selectionAgingBank volesHeat dissipation limit theoryMetabolic rateReproductive performanceRG Gynecology and obstetricsSupplementary Informationhttps://cob.silverchair-cdn.com/cob/content_public/journal/jeb/227/4/10.1242_jeb.246592/1/jeb246592supp.pdf?Expires=1724155821&Signature=FzCTyXqJY26eQj2GBk8TzYR~f4WXyVTSQ48v6YkuRfGzJnG6g0pO3v7CxIcFXJnSCiSN5nclGpgM3KjsBLA6ALCOP6cjpNwWer7Mb1WuCWzkaW1ga1IsyzLXUKh2sDeQUIqtUZa7aD7Ezr1SFum2U1DcNcyvhURedB4KTi6CkeJxw8hoeVOMA4Mw7Qan7b0A~kwFV9QWRh-adpE2~TX3zZhIfJpnIL4EQQyk2GtNAfo-gajy947a0RcRyoffZmtJCqGszkppE0Ff5wtwO9ZFZ87s71QsXzSO0eSMRHdYOwKQQDyhRk5N3~QFYmt~vc5OBfwvViIEHEGirmPXSoEoXA__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIE5G5CRDK6RD3PGAhttps://cob.silverchair-cdn.com/cob/content_public/journal/jeb/227/4/10.1242_jeb.246592/1/tables5.xlsx?Expires=1724155821&Signature=a3xUecT53rBGGtNmw2UGj7eBAiMkpm2-5l0VrgxZwOmqbLqF3DKnIqGFQAtrxg4WiQovE-2nS87NF9mox170Zt1Z8uUMQdUs0J94SvFUA9oQx3n1hVCzSK5s39iiRfITWktxtKOR-5YIZCH6DgG8UKELXR0DD~dUSQN3fh0Sup-JIxxKmihTTG5LbhZ3ZRRCNiNb~~SWo8KrqWJP0c3E4m8C6XCrnWRayljm8bOceK~wOOzZ~R~rLFx56sInfQM6s55oWIkA1h58NdiCMCWHdx6f1dru4IV9PlxIbXeA8qqiChKuAerUcWDZu6dWfs-r2L~X6Y1fdpjbB84UOzRkHA__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIE5G5CRDK6RD3PGARGJournal article10.1242/jeb.2465922274