Metabolic profile of long-distance migratory flight and stopover in a shorebird

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 272, Issue 1560, 2005, Pages 295-302

  Landys, Meta M ^a,f   Piersma, Theunis ^b,c   Guglielmo, Christopher G ^d   Jukema, Joop ^e   Ramenofsky, Marilyn ^a   Wingfield, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^e University of Oslo ^*  (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Energy fuel; Flight; Migration; Plasma metabolites; Stopover

Indexed keywords

BUTYRIC ACID; FATTY ACID; GLYCEROL; LIPID; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; URIC ACID; WATER; BUTYRIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ENERGETICS; FLIGHT ACTIVITY; METABOLISM; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; STOPOVER; WADER;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENERGY CONSERVATION; EVALUATION AND FOLLOW UP; FATTY ACID BLOOD LEVEL; FLUID BALANCE; FLYING; GLUCONEOGENESIS; GLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; LIMOSA; LIMOSA LAPPONICA TAYMYRENSIS; LIVER METABOLISM; METABOLIC REGULATION; METABOLITE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION MIGRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; AFRICA; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD; CHARADRIIFORMES; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENERGY METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

AVES; LIMOSA; LIMOSA LAPPONICA;

AFRICA; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BUTYRATES; CHARADRIIFORMES; ENERGY METABOLISM; FATTY ACIDS, NONESTERIFIED; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; GLYCEROL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RUSSIA; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TRIGLYCERIDES; URIC ACID;

EID: 16244381147     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2952     Document Type: Article

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