Inter-sexual differences in resting metabolic rates in the Texas tarantula, Aphonopelma anax

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 142, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 439-445

  Shillington, Cara ^a,b  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arachnids; Resting metabolic rates; Sexual differences; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; OXYGEN;

ADAPTATION; APHONOPELMA ANAX; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY; FEMALE; LIFE HISTORY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MATING; METABOLIC RATE; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; RESPIRATORY QUOTIENT; RESPIROMETRY; SEASON; SEX; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL MATURITY; SPIDER; TARANTULA; TEMPERATURE;

ANAX; APHONOPELMA; ARACHNIDA; ARANEAE; TARANTULA; THERAPHOSIDAE;

EID: 29244444812     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2005.09.010     Document Type: Article

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