Effects of Body Mass, Meal Size, Fast Length, and Temperature on Specific Dynamic Action in the Timber Rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus)

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 447-458

  Zaidan III, Frederic ^a,b   Beaupre, Steven J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

BIOENERGETICS; BODY MASS; DIGESTION; FOOD CONSUMPTION; SNAKE; STARVATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY CONSTITUTION; CALORIMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIET; DIET RESTRICTION; ENERGY METABOLISM; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SNAKE; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; BODY CONSTITUTION; CALORIMETRY, INDIRECT; CARBON DIOXIDE; CROTALUS; DIET; ENERGY METABOLISM; FASTING; TEMPERATURE;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; BOIDAE; CROTALUS; CROTALUS HORRIDUS; REPTILIA; SERPENTES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0142136052     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/375661     Document Type: Article

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