Energetics and thermoregulation during digging in the rodent tuco-tuco (Ctenomys talarum)

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 146, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 559-564

  Luna, Facundo ^a   Antinuchi, C Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Cost of burrowing; Ctenomys; Digging energetics; Thermal stress; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CTENOMYS TALARUM; ENERGY TRANSFER; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; MALE; METABOLIC RATE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; RODENT; THERMOGENESIS; THERMOREGULATION;

CTENOMYS; CTENOMYS TALARUM; RODENTIA;

EID: 33847672661     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2005.12.025     Document Type: Article

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