Influence of daylength on metabolic rate and daily water loss in the male prosimian primate Microcebus murinus

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 981-989

  Perret, M ^a   Aujard, F ^a   Vannier, G ^a  

^a Laboratoire d'Ecologie Generale   (France)

Author keywords

Body mass; Circadian water loss; Daylength; Microcebus murinus; Oxygen consumption; Primate; Seasonal rhythms; Urine output

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; METABOLIC RATE; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIMATE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUNLIGHT; URINE VOLUME; WATER LOSS;

ANIMALIA; MICROCEBUS MURINUS; PRIMATES; STREPSIRHINI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031841197     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(98)00015-4     Document Type: Article

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