Body building and concurrent mass loss: Flight adaptations in tree sparrows

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 268, Issue 1479, 2001, Pages 1915-1919

  Lind, J ^a   Jakobsson, S ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Body mass; Flight performance; Moult; Pectoral muscle; Rapid reversible physiology; Tree sparrow

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; FLIGHT ACTIVITY; PASSERINE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; BODY BUILDING; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLYING; FORELIMB; MIGRATION; MOLTING; MUSCLE MASS; NONHUMAN; ORGAN SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0035934638     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2001.1740     Document Type: Article

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