Maximizing survivorship in cold: Thermogenic profiles of non-hibernating mammals

Acta Theriologica

Volumn 47, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2002, Pages 221-234

  Merritt, Joseph F ^a   Zegers, David A ^a  

^a SECTION OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blarina brevicauda; Brown adipose tissue; Clethrionomys gapperi; Glaucomys volans; Nonshivering thermogenesis; Peromyscus leucopus; Peromyscus maniculatus; Resting metabolic rate; Social thermoregulation; Sorex cinereus

Indexed keywords

METABOLISM; SEASONAL VARIATION; SMALL MAMMAL; SURVIVORSHIP; THERMOREGULATION; WINTER;

BLARINA; BLARINA BREVICAUDA; CERVIDAE; CLETHRIONOMYS; CLETHRIONOMYS GAPPERI; CRICETINAE; GLAUCOMYS VOLANS; MAMMALIA; MURIDAE; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS; PETAURISTINAE; SCIURIDAE; SOREX; SOREX CINEREUS; SORICIDAE;

EID: 0036036308     PISSN: 00017051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf03192489     Document Type: Article

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