Daily torpor in elephant shrews (Macroscelidea: Elephantulus spp.) in response to food deprivation

Journal of Comparative Physiology - B Biochemical, Systemic, and Environmental Physiology

Volumn 171, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 11-21

  Lovegrove, B G ^a   Raman, J ^a   Perrin, M R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATAL PIETERMARITZBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Daily torpor; Elephant shrews; Food deprivation; Macroscelidea; Unpredictable environments

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOOD DEPRIVATION; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SHREW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME;

ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FOOD DEPRIVATION; PHOTOPERIOD; SHREWS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0035135487     PISSN: 01741578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003600000140     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Circadian rhythms of activity and of body temperature
2. Circadian control of body temperature
3. Circadian timing
4. Energetics and torpor in the Atacama desert-dwelling rodent Phyllotis darwini rupestris
5. Daily torpor in Calomys musculinus, a South American rodent
6. Facultative torpor in the South American rodent Calomys venustus (Rodentia: Cricetidae)
7. Lesion of the serotonergic terminals in the suprachiasmatic nuclei limits the phase advance of body-temperature rhythm in food-restricted rats during daytime
8. Ventromedial nuclei of the hypothalamus are involved in the phase advance of temperature and activity rhythms in food-restricted rats during daytime
9. Role of short photoperiod and cold exposure in regulating daily torpor in Djungarian hamsters
10. Hibernation versus daily torpor in mammals and birds: Physiological variables and classification of torpor patterns
11. Torpor bout duration during the hibernation season of two sciurid rodents: Interrelations with temperature and metabolism
12. Photoperiod, reproductive hormones, and winter torpor in three hamster species
13. Seasonal acclimatization of energy requirements in mammals: Functional significance of body weight control, hypothermia, torpor and hibernation
14. Photoperiodic control and effects of melatonin on nonshivering thermogenesis and brown adipose tissue
15. The low basal metabolic rates of marsupials: The influence of torpor and zoogeography
16. The zoogeography of mammalian basal metabolic rate
17. Torpor patterns in the pouched mouse (Saccostomus campestris; Rodentia): A model animal for unpredictable environments
18. The energetic cost of arousal from torpor in the marsupial Sminthopsis macroura: Benefits of summer ambient temperature cycles
19. Confirmation of pleisiomorphic daily torpor in mammals: The round-eared elephant shrew Maroscelides proboscideus (Macroscelidea)
20. Heterothermy in elephant shrews, Elephantulus sp. (Macroscelidea): Daily torpor or hibernation?
21. Body temperature and torpor in a Malagasy small primate, the mouse lemur
22. A functional analysis of circadian pacemeakers in nocturnal rodents, vol 1. Entrainment: Pacemeaker as a clock
23. Control of annual rhythms of reproduction and hibernation by photoperiod and temperature in the Turkish hamster
24. Evidence on mammalian phylogeny from sequences of Exon 28 of the von Willebrand Factor Gene
25. The melatonin rhythm: Both a clock and a calendar
26. Temperature regulation and activity pattern of the round-eared elephant shrew Macroscelides proboscideus (Shaw)
27. The baseline cosinus function: A periodic regression model for biological activity
28. The impact of daily torpor on energy requirements in the Djungarian Hamster, Phodopus sungorus
29. Daily torpor in the Djungarian hamster (Phodopus sungorus): Interactions with food intake, activity and social behaviour
30. Cold exposure and food restriction facilitate physiological responses to short photoperiod in Djungarian hamsters (Phodopus sungorus)
31. Endemic African mammals shake the phylogenetic tree
32. Mammalian evolution and the interphotoreceptor retinoid binding protein (IRBP) gene: Evidence for several superordinal clades
33. Prediction of global rainfall probabilities using phases of the Southern Oscillation Index
34. Summer torpor in African woodland dormice Graphiurus murinus (Myoxida: Graphiurinae)
35. Daily activity patterns in captive elephant shrews (Macroscelididae)