Limits to milk flow and energy allocation during lactation of the hispid cotton rat (Sigmodon hispidus)

Physiological Zoology

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 312-320

  Rogowitz, Gordon L ^a,b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY ALLOCATION; HISPID COTTON RAT; LACTATION; MILK PRODUCTION;

SIGMODON HISPIDUS;

EID: 0032077258     PISSN: 0031935X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/515923     Document Type: Article

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