Biochemical indicators of stress and metabolism: Applications for marine ecological studies

Annual Review of Physiology

Volumn 66, Issue , 2004, Pages 183-207

  Dahlhoff, Elizabeth P ^a  

^a SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Heat shock protein; Marine physiological ecology; Metabolic enzymes; RNA:DNA ratio

Indexed keywords

DNA; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; RNA;

BIOCHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FISH; FOOD AVAILABILITY; GROWTH RATE; HEAT STRESS; INVERTEBRATE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; METABOLISM; MUSSEL; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; STRESS; TEMPERATURE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; HEAT INJURY; METHODOLOGY;

ANIMALS; DNA; ECOLOGY; HEAT STRESS DISORDERS; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; MARINE BIOLOGY; RNA; STRESS;

EID: 2342539138     PISSN: 00664278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.physiol.66.032102.114509     Document Type: Review

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