Thermoregulatory responses of mesic and xeric rodent species to photoperiod manipulations

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 187-191

  Haim, Abraham ^a   Shabtay, Ariel ^a   Arad, Zeev ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Body mass; Heat dessipation; Mesic; Metabolic rates; Non shivering thermogenesis; Photoperiod; Rodent; Thermoregulation; Xeric; Zoogeography

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; BODY MASS; BODY TEMPERATURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; HAMSTER; HEAT ACCLIMATIZATION; METABOLIC RATE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPERIODICITY; RODENT; STRESS; THERMOGENESIS; THERMOREGULATION; VOLE;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS MIGRATORIUS; MICROTUS GUENTHERI; MURIDAE; MUS MACEDONICUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 0031827960     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(98)10030-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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