Milk composition of free-living yellow-pine chipmunks (Tamias amoenus): Temporal variation during lactation

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 387-392

  Veloso, Claudio ^a   Place, Ned J ^b,c   Kenagy, G J ^b  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chipmunks; Energetics; Growth; Lactation; Lipids; Milk composition; Nutrition; Tamias

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; LIPID; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHILDBIRTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY TRANSFER; FEMALE; HIBERNATION; LACTATION; MALE; MATING; MILK; NONHUMAN; OMNIVORY; RODENT;

MAMMALIA; RODENTIA; TAMIAS; TAMIAS AMOENUS; UNDETERMINED SCIURIDAE 'CHIPMUNKS';

EID: 0037304384     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(02)00286-6     Document Type: Article

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