Effects of dehydration on water content, metabolism, and body fluid solutes of a carabid beetle from dry savanna in East Africa

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Physiology

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 779-787

  Bjerke, Ragnar ^a   Zachariassen, Karl Erik ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Amino acids; Carabidae; Cyphaloba; Dehydration; Desert; Haemolymph; Metabolism; Sodium

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; SODIUM; WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEETLE; BODY FLUID; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUTICLE; DEHYDRATION; EVAPORATION; HEMOLYMPH; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WATER CONTENT; WATER PERMEABILITY;

EID: 0031280457     PISSN: 03009629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0300-9629(97)00060-1     Document Type: Article

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