Parental care: The key to understanding endothermy and other convergent features in birds and mammals

American Naturalist

Volumn 155, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 326-334

  Farmer, C G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Endothermy; Parental care; Thermogenesis

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; CONVERGENCE; ENDOTHERMY; EVOLUTION; MAMMAL; NATURAL SELECTION; PARENTAL CARE;

EID: 0034003357     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/303323     Document Type: Article

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