Energy Expenditure And Efficiency Of Energy Use In Rodents: Desert And Non-Desert Species

Journal of Basic and Clinical Physiology and Pharmacology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 29-50

  Degen, A Allan ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANIMAL MODEL; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; BODY MASS; CALORIC INTAKE; DESERT; DIET; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; HEAT STRESS; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; RODENT; THERMOGENESIS; THERMOREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BASAL METABOLISM; DESERT CLIMATE; ENERGY METABOLISM; LINEAR MODELS; RODENTIA;

EID: 0031713482     PISSN: 07926855     EISSN: 21910286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/JBCPP.1998.9.1.29     Document Type: Article

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