Costs of anorexia during pregnancy in a viviparous snake (Vipera aspis)

Journal of Experimental Zoology

Volumn 292, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 487-493

  Lourdais, Olivier ^a,e   Bonnet, Xavier ^b,d   Doughty, Paul ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^c Conseil Gnral des Deux Svres ^*  (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

^e CENTRE D ETUDES BIOLOGIQUES DE CHIZÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BREEDING; EATING; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; FERTILITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; PREGNANCY; SNAKE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ANOREXIA; BODY COMPOSITION; EATING; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; FERTILITY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; VIPERIDAE;

ANIMALIA; SERPENTES; VIPERA ASPIS; VIPERINAE;

EID: 0036543728     PISSN: 0022104X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jez.10065     Document Type: Article

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