Turtles (Chelodina longicollis) regulate muscle metabolic enzyme activity in response to seasonal variation in body temperature

Journal of Comparative Physiology B: Biochemical, Systemic, and Environmental Physiology

Volumn 174, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 205-210

  Seebacher, F ^a   Sparrow, J ^a   Thompson, M B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acclimatisation; Ectotherms; Performance; Reptiles; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

6 PHOSPHOFRUCTOKINASE; CITRATE SYNTHASE; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; ENZYME; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; KINETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; SKELETAL MUSCLE; THERMOREGULATION; TURTLE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; CITRATE (SI)-SYNTHASE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; ENZYMES; KINETICS; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHOSPHOFRUCTOKINASES; SEASONS; TURTLES;

EID: 2442473192     PISSN: 01741578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00360-003-0331-2     Document Type: Article

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