Blood characteristics, tracheal volume and heart mass of burrowing owls (Athene cunicularia) and bobwhite (Colinus virginianus)

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology -- Part A: Physiology

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 1983, Pages 693-696

  Boggs, Dona F ^a   Birchard, Geoffrey F ^a   Kilgore Jr , Delbert L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; HEART; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; ORGAN WEIGHT; PH; TRACHEA;

ANIMAL; BIRDS; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; ERYTHROCYTE INDICES; FEMALE; HEART; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBINOMETRY; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MALE; ORGAN WEIGHT; OXYGEN; TRACHEA;

EID: 0020673765     PISSN: 03009629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0300-9629(83)90569-8     Document Type: Review

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