Comparative postautotomy tail activity in six mediterranean lacertid lizard species

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 828-838

  Pafilis, Panayiotis ^a   Valakos, Efstratios D ^a   Foufopoulos, Johannes ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOGEN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LACTIC ACID;

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; LIZARD;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENERGY METABOLISM; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; HISTOLOGY; LIPID METABOLISM; LIZARD; METABOLISM; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TAIL; TIME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ENERGY METABOLISM; ESCAPE REACTION; GLYCOGEN; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LACTIC ACID; LIPID METABOLISM; LIZARDS; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TAIL; TIME FACTORS;

LACERTA GRAECA; LACERTIDAE; PODARCIS; PODARCIS ERHARDII; PODARCIS MILENSIS; PODARCIS MURALIS; PODARCIS PELOPONNESIACA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 24744459019     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/431192     Document Type: Article

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