Limits to physical performance and metabolism across species

Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 691-696

  Turner, Nigel ^a   Hulbert, A J ^b   Else, Paul L ^b  

^a GARVAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Body mass; Exercise; Membrane fatty acids; Oxygen delivery; Substrate metabolism

Indexed keywords

ENERGY CONSUMPTION; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; METABOLIC RATE; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; REVIEW; SPECIES COMPARISON;

ANIMALS; BASAL METABOLISM; BODY SIZE; ENERGY METABOLISM; EXERCISE; FATTY ACIDS; HUMANS; NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33750307505     PISSN: 13631950     EISSN: 15353885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mco.0000247474.56908.79     Document Type: Review

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