Seasonal and interindividual variation in field water metabolism of female meadow voles Microtus pennsylvanicus

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 545-554

  Berteaux, Dominique ^a,b   Thomas, Don ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEUTERIUM OXIDE; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARVICOLINAE; BODY COMPOSITION; DIET; ELECTROLYTE BALANCE; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; BODY COMPOSITION; DEUTERIUM OXIDE; DIET; FEMALE; MALE; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE; WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE;

EID: 0033197737     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/316694     Document Type: Article

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