Aerobic metabolism during predation by a boid snake

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 487-498

  Canjani, Camila ^a   Andrade, Denis V ^a   Cruz Neto, Ariovaldo P ^a   Abe, Augusto S ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Boidae; Constriction; Energetics; Feeding; Metabolism; Predation; Prey ingestion; Snakes

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BIOENERGY; BODY MASS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; EVOLUTION; FEEDING; GLYCOLYSIS; INGESTION; METABOLIC RATE; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PREDATION; PREY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SNAKE; TIME; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY CONSTITUTION; EATING; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

BOA; BOA CONSTRICTOR; BOIDAE; HENOPHIDIA; SERPENTES;

ANIMALS; BODY CONSTITUTION; BOIDAE; EATING; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0036850919     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(02)00150-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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