Evaporative water loss and oxygen uptake in two casque-headed tree frogs, Aparasphenodon brunoi and Corythomantis greeningi (anura, hylidae)

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Physiology

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 685-689

  De Andrade, Denis Vieira ^a   Abe, Augusto Shinya ^a  

^a Departamento de Zoologia   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anura; Aparasphenodon; Corythomantis; Cranial co ossification; Evaporative water loss; Hylidae; Oxygen consumption; Phragmosis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUID BALANCE; FROG; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN PERMEABILITY; WATER LOSS; WATER PERMEABILITY;

ANIMALS; ANURA; BODY WATER; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENT; OSTEOGENESIS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; SKULL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0031279794     PISSN: 03009629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0300-9629(96)00481-1     Document Type: Article

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