Open Data for Open Questions in Comparative Nutrition

Open Data for Open Questions in Comparative Nutrition

Achieving a better understanding of the consequences of nutrition to animal fitness and human health is a major challenge of our century. Nutritional ecology studies increasingly use nutritional landscapes to map the complex interacting effects of nutrient intake on animal performances, in a wide ra...

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Main Authors: Juliano Morimoto, Mathieu Lihoreau
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-04-01
Series:Insects
Subjects:
nutritional ecology
geometric framework for nutrition
performance landscape
open data
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/11/4/236
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spelling doaj-a508f08fed0e4ac4b36a9cbfddf118612020-11-25T02:23:52ZengMDPI AGInsects2075-44502020-04-011123623610.3390/insects11040236Open Data for Open Questions in Comparative NutritionJuliano Morimoto0Mathieu Lihoreau1School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Zoology Building, Tillydrone Ave, Aberdeen AB24 2TZ, UKResearch Center on Animal Cognition (CRCA), Center for Integrative Biology (CBI); CNRS, University Paul Sabatier, 31062 Toulouse, FranceAchieving a better understanding of the consequences of nutrition to animal fitness and human health is a major challenge of our century. Nutritional ecology studies increasingly use nutritional landscapes to map the complex interacting effects of nutrient intake on animal performances, in a wide range of species and ecological contexts. Here, we argue that opening access to these hard-to-obtain, yet considerably insightful, data is fundamental to develop a comparative framework for nutrition research and offer new quantitative means to address open questions about the ecology and evolution of nutritional processes.https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/11/4/236nutritional ecologygeometric framework for nutritionperformance landscapeopen data
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nutritional ecology
geometric framework for nutrition
performance landscape
open data
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description Achieving a better understanding of the consequences of nutrition to animal fitness and human health is a major challenge of our century. Nutritional ecology studies increasingly use nutritional landscapes to map the complex interacting effects of nutrient intake on animal performances, in a wide range of species and ecological contexts. Here, we argue that opening access to these hard-to-obtain, yet considerably insightful, data is fundamental to develop a comparative framework for nutrition research and offer new quantitative means to address open questions about the ecology and evolution of nutritional processes.
topic nutritional ecology
geometric framework for nutrition
performance landscape
open data
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