Differential energy costs of winter acclimatized common spiny mice Acomys cahirinus from two adjacent habitats

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 137, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 419-423

  Scantlebury, Michael ^a,d   Shanas, Uri ^a   Kupshtein, Hagai ^a   Speakman, John R ^b,c   Haim, Abraham ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c ROWETT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Acomys; Body temperature; Desert; Doubly labelled water; Ecophysiology; Energy; Evolution; Resting metabolic rate; Thermoregulation; Water turnover

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALLOMETRY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESERT; ENERGY COST; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HABITAT STRUCTURE; MALE; METABOLIC RATE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; SUMMER; TURNOVER TIME; WINTER;

ACOMYS; ACOMYS CAHIRINUS; EUTHERIA; MUS SAXICOLA; SANDFLY FEVER SICILIAN VIRUS; SPINY;

EID: 0442307959     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpb.2003.11.004     Document Type: Article

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