Limits to the energy budget in a rodent, Peromyscus maniculatus: Does gut capacity set the limit?

Physiological Zoology

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 994-1020

  Koteja, Pawel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY BUDGET; GUT CAPACITY;

PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS;

EID: 0030301953     PISSN: 0031935X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/physzool.69.5.30164243     Document Type: Article

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