Plasma metabolites reflect seasonally changing metabolic processes in a long-distance migrant shorebird (Calidris canutus)

Zoology

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 239-246

  Jenni Eiermann, Susanne ^a   Jenni, Lukas ^a   Piersma, Theunis ^b,c  

^a SWISS ORNITHOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Annual cycle; Bird migration; Fat metabolism; Moult; Red knots

Indexed keywords

AVES; CALIDRIS CANUTUS; SPHENISCIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037000907     PISSN: 09442006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/0944-2006-00066     Document Type: Article

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