Respiratory gas exchange in the desert flea Xenopsylla ramesis (Siphonaptera: Pulicidae): Response to temperature and blood-feeding

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 137, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 557-565

  Fielden, L J ^a   Krasnov, B R ^b   Khokhlova, I S ^b   Arakelyan, M S ^c  

^a TRUMAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c YEREVAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (Armenia)

Author keywords

Desert; Flea; Gas exchange; Metabolic rate; Post absorptive; Q 10; Respiration; Temperature; Xenopsylla ramesis

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESERT; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEEDING; FLEA; HEAT SENSITIVITY; INSECT; LARVA; LIFE CYCLE; LUNG GAS EXCHANGE; METABOLISM; MICROENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; RESPIROMETRY; STARVATION; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; WATER CONTENT; XENOPSYLLA RAMESIS;

PULICIDAE; RODENTIA; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); XENOPSYLLA; XENOPSYLLA RAMESIS;

EID: 1442350573     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpb.2003.11.012     Document Type: Article

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