Metabolism of tuatara, Sphenodon punctatus

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 519-522

  Thompson, Michael B ^a   Daugherty, Charles H ^b  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Body temperature; Mass exponent; Metabolic scaling; Metabolism; Oxygen consumption; Sphenodon; Stephens Island; Tuatara

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; LIZARD; MALE; METABOLIC RATE; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION;

SPHENODON PUNCTATUS;

EID: 0032007175     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(97)00459-5     Document Type: Article

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