Correlation of seasonal acclimatization in metabolic enzyme activity with preferred body temperature in the Eastern red spotted newt (Notophthalmus viridescens viridescens)

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 144, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 429-436

  Berner, Nancy J ^a   Bessay, Emmanuel P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acclimatization; Amphibians; Citrate synthase; Cytochrome c oxidase; Eastern red spotted newt; Enzyme activity; Lactate dehydrogenase; Preferred temperature

Indexed keywords

CITRATE SYNTHASE; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MUSCLE ENZYME;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; NEWT; NONHUMAN; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER; WINTER;

AMPHIBIA; NOTOPHTHALMUS VIRIDESCENS; NOTOPHTHALMUS VIRIDESCENS VIRIDESCENS; SALAMANDRIDAE;

EID: 33745599322     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2006.03.012     Document Type: Article

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