Physiological effects of short-term water deprivation in the South American sigmodontine rice rat Oligoryzomys nigripes and water rat Nectomys squamipes within a phylogenetic context

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 82, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1326-1335

  Ribeiro, Martim De França Silveira ^a   Da Rocha, Pedro Luiz Bernardo ^b   Mendes, Lys Angela Favaroni ^a   Perry, Steven Franklin ^c   De Oliveira, Elisabeth Spinelli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EVAPORATION; FOOD PRODUCTS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; INTAKE SYSTEMS; PHYSIOLOGY; WATER CONSERVATION;

PHYLOGENETICS; SEMI-ARID ENVIRONMENTS; WATER DEPRIVATION; WATER LOSS;

BIODIVERSITY;

ADAPTATION; BODY SIZE; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; RODENT; SEMIARID REGION; WATER AVAILABILITY;

BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

NECTOMYS SQUAMIPES; OLIGORYZOMYS NIGRIPES; ORYZOMYS PALUSTRIS NATATOR; RODENTIA; SCAPTEROMYS AQUATICUS;

EID: 12744261603     PISSN: 00084301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/Z04-104     Document Type: Article

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