Maternal care reduces maternal hyperthermia in djungarian hamsters (Phodopus campbelli)

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 41-47

  Walton, Jennifer M ^a   Wynne Edwards, Katherine E ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Biparental care; Hyperthermia; Lactation; Maternal behaviour; Pohodopus; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; GROWTH; GROWTH RATE; HYPERTHERMIA; LACTATION; MALE; MATERNAL CARE; NONHUMAN; PHODOPUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMOREGULATION; WEANING; ANIMAL; FEVER; HAMSTER; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; NESTING; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SURVIVAL; TELEMETRY; TEMPERATURE; TIME;

PHODOPUS CAMPBELLI;

ANIMALS; CRICETINAE; FEMALE; FEVER; GROWTH; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; NESTING BEHAVIOR; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PHODOPUS; SURVIVAL; TELEMETRY; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030608818     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(97)00385-5     Document Type: Article

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