Kidney mass and relative medullary thickness of rodents in relation to habitat, body size, and phylogeny

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 346-365

  Al kahtani, Mohammed A ^a,e   Zuleta, Carlos ^b   Caviedes Vidal, Enrique ^c   Garland Jr , Theodore ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOLOGÍA   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN LUIS   (Argentina)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e KING FAISAL UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARIDITY; PHYSIOLOGY; RODENT;

ANIMAL; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BODY CONSTITUTION; CLIMATE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; HISTOLOGY; KIDNEY CONCENTRATING CAPACITY; KIDNEY MEDULLA; MORPHOMETRICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; RODENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ARGENTINA; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENT; KIDNEY CONCENTRATING ABILITY; KIDNEY MEDULLA; PHYLOGENY; RODENTIA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 3042603447     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/420941     Document Type: Article

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