Thermal relations of metabolic rate reduction in a hibernating marsupial

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 273, Issue 6 42-6, 1997, Pages

  Song, Xiaowei ^a   Körtner, Gerhard ^a   Geiser, Fritz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Body temperature; Cercartetus nanus; Oxygen consumption; Thermoregulation; Torpor

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; FEMALE; HIBERNATION; MALE; MARSUPIAL; METABOLIC RATE; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMOREGULATION;

EID: 0031423573     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.1997.273.6.r2097     Document Type: Article

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