Energy expenditure in Crocidurinae shrews (Insectivora): Is metabolism a key component of the insular syndrome?

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 142, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 276-285

  Magnanou, Elodie ^a   Fons, Roger ^a   Blondel, Jacques ^b   Morand, Serge ^c  

^a France   (France)

^b CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^c CENTRE DE BIOLOGIE ET DE GESTION DES POPULATIONS   (France)

Author keywords

Crocidura; Ecological niche; Evolutionary responses; Gigantism; Micromammals; Oxygen consumption; Resting metabolic rate; Suncus

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ALLOMETRY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROCIDURA RUSSULA; CROCIDURA SUAVEOLENS; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GIGANTISM; INSECTIVORE; MAMMAL; MEASUREMENT; METABOLIC RATE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUNCUS ETRUSCUS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

ANIMALIA; CROCIDURA; CROCIDURA RUSSULA; CROCIDURA SUAVEOLENS; CROCIDURINAE; INSECTIVORA; MAMMALIA; SORICIDAE; SUNCUS; SUNCUS ETRUSCUS;

EID: 27644497019     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpb.2005.07.006     Document Type: Article

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