Lipids of the stratum corneum vary with cutaneous water loss among larks along a temperature-moisture gradient

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 907-917

  Haugen, Michael ^a   Williams, Joseph B ^a   Wertz, Philip ^b   Irene Tieleman, B ^c,d  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERAMIDE; FATTY ACID;

ARID REGION; AVIFAUNA; LIPID; WATER VAPOR;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDERMIS; HUMIDITY; IRAN; NETHERLANDS; PHYSIOLOGY; SAUDI ARABIA; SONGBIRD; TEMPERATURE; THERMOREGULATION;

ANIMALS; CERAMIDES; CLIMATE; EPIDERMIS; FATTY ACIDS, NONESTERIFIED; HUMIDITY; IRAN; NETHERLANDS; SAUDI ARABIA; SONGBIRDS; TEMPERATURE; WATER LOSS, INSENSIBLE;

ALAUDIDAE; ANIMALIA; AVES; PASSERI;

EID: 0242267766     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/380213     Document Type: Article

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