Metabolic rate of neonate goannas (Squamata: Varanidae)

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 625-631

  Thompson, Graham G ^a   Withers, Philip C ^b  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Allometry; Goanna; Lizard; Metabolism; Neonates; Varanus

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; LIZARD; METABOLIC RATE; METABOLISM; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TREADMILL;

ANIMALIA; SQUAMATA; VARANIDAE; VARANUS; VARANUS BREVICAUDA; VARANUS EREMIUS; VARANUS GOULDII; VARANUS MERTENSI; VARANUS TRISTIS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032125077     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(98)10075-2     Document Type: Article

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