Compensation for environmental change by complementary shifts of thermal sensitivity and thermoregulatory behaviour in an ectotherm

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 209, Issue 24, 2006, Pages 4869-4877

  Glanville, E J ^a   Seebacher, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acclimation; Metabolism; Mitochondria; Phenotypic plasticity; Reptile; Thermal reaction norm

Indexed keywords

CITRATE SYNTHASE; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALLIGATOR; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SWIMMING; THERMOREGULATION;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; CITRATE (SI)-SYNTHASE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASES; MITOCHONDRIA; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; SWIMMING;

ALLIGATOR; ANIMALIA; CROCODYLUS POROSUS; REPTILIA;

EID: 33846476031     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.02585     Document Type: Article

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