Grooming secretions and seasonal adaptations in the blind mole rat (Spalax ehrenbergi)

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 653-656

  Shanas, Uri ^a   Terkel, Joseph ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Grooming; Harderian gland; Mole rat; Photoperiod; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; COLD STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERBIL; GROOMING; HARDER GLAND; HEAT STRESS; MOLE RAT; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THERMOREGULATION;

SPALAX EHRENBERGI;

EID: 0030221094     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-9384(96)00099-6     Document Type: Article

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