Development of thermoregulation and torpor in a marsupial: Energetic and evolutionary implications

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

Volumn 176, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 107-116

  Geiser, Fritz ^a   Westman, Wendy ^a   McAllan, Bronwyn M ^a   Brigham, R Mark ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

BMR scaling; Endothermy; Growth; Sminthopsis macroura; Thermo energetics

Indexed keywords

AVES; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; SMINTHOPSIS MACROURA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ENERGY METABOLISM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MARSUPIAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOMETRICS; PHYSIOLOGY; THERMOREGULATION; TIME;

ANIMALS; BASAL METABOLISM; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ENERGY METABOLISM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MARSUPIALIA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 31544483376     PISSN: 01741578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00360-005-0026-y     Document Type: Article

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