Temperature selection and use of torpor by the marsupial Sminthopsis macroura

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 675-682

  Song, Xiaowei ^a,b   Körtner, Gerhard ^a   Geiser, Fritz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Daily torpor; Locomotor activity; Sminthopsis macroura; Temperature gradient; Temperature selection; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FOOD; MALE; MARSUPIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMNOLENCE; THERMOREGULATION;

EID: 0032123963     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(98)00136-X     Document Type: Article

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