Effects of temperature on the metabolic response to feeding in Python molurus

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 519-527

  Wang, Tobias ^a,b   Zaar, Morten ^b   Arvedsen, Sine ^b   Vedel Smith, Christina ^b   Overgaard, Johannes ^b  

^a Center of Old Fashioned Physiology   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Costs of digestion; Digestion; Digestive efficiency; Feeding; Oxygen uptake; Python molurus; Reptile; Snake; Specific dynamic action; Temperature

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; OXYGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BODY REGIONS; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY WEIGHT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTION; DIGESTIVE FUNCTION; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; FEEDING; GAS EXCHANGE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LOW TEMPERATURE; MEASUREMENT; METABOLIC RATE; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; SNAKE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TIME; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DIET RESTRICTION; EATING; ENERGY METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

PYTHON MOLURUS; REPTILIA; SERPENTES; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; BOIDAE; DIGESTION; EATING; ENERGY METABOLISM; FASTING; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0036850920     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(02)00250-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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