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Heat dissipation has been suggested as a limit to sustained metabolic effort, e.g. during lactation, when overheating is a possible risk. We tested this hypothesis using mice artificially selected for either high or low BMR that also differed with respect to parental effort. We used fixed size cross-fostered families and recorded litter mass daily until the 14th day of lactation. Midway through the experiment (day 8) half of the mothers from each group had fur from the dorsal body surface removed to increase their thermal conductance and facilitate heat dissipation. Our results showed that neither high nor low BMR mouse lines benefited from increasing their thermal conductance at peak lactation. On the contrary, growth of the litters reared by the low BMR females was compromised. Thus, our results do not support the heat dissipation limitation hypothesis.
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