Energetics during nursing and early postweaning fasting in hooded seal (Cystophora cristata) pups from the Gulf of St Lawrence, Canada

Journal of Comparative Physiology - B Biochemical, Systemic, and Environmental Physiology

Volumn 167, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 81-88

  Lydersen, C ^a   Kovacs, K M ^b   Hammill, M O ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c MAURICE LAMONTAGNE INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; CALORIC INTAKE; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LACTATION; METABOLISM; PHOCA; PHYSIOLOGY; SUCKLING; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, SUCKLING; BASAL METABOLISM; ENERGY INTAKE; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; LACTATION; SEALS, EARLESS; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 0031079735     PISSN: 01741578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003600050050     Document Type: Article

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