Design, limitations and sustained metabolic rate: Lessons from small mammals

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 205, Issue 19, 2002, Pages 2963-2970

  Bacigalupe, Leonardo D ^a   Bozinovic, Francisco ^a  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Central limitation; Energy budget; Peripheral limitation; Physiological limit; Sustained metabolic rate; Symmorphosis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY CONSTITUTION; ENERGY METABOLISM; HISTOLOGY; MAMMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BODY CONSTITUTION; ENERGY METABOLISM; MAMMALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036793465     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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