Intraspecific allometry of standard metabolic rate in green iguanas, Iguana iguana

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 301-310

  Maxwell, Lara K ^a,c   Jacobson, Elliott R ^a   McNab, Brian K ^b  

^a University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine   (United States)

^b University of California ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Allometry; Iguana; Lizard; Metabolic rate; Ontogeny; Reptile; Scaling; Squamate; Thermal acclimation

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ALLOMETRY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BODY MASS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IGUANA IGUANA; LIZARD; MALE; METABOLIC RATE; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PREDICTION; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION;

IGUANA; IGUANA IGUANA; IGUANIA; REPTILIA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 0141456141     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(03)00145-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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