Photoperiod affects daily torpor and tissue fatty acid composition in deer mice

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 319-325

  Geiser, Fritz ^a   McAllan, B M ^a,b   Kenagy, G J ^c   Hiebert, Sara M ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d SWARTHMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fat; Heterothermy; Thermal energetics; Thermoregulation; Torpor bouts

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID;

ACCLIMATION; BIOENERGETICS; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; FATTY ACID; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LIGHT EFFECT; LOW TEMPERATURE; METABOLISM; PHOTOPERIOD; RODENT; THERMOREGULATION; TORPOR;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY TEMPERATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAT INTAKE; LEG MUSCLE; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; LIPID COMPOSITION; METABOLIC RATE; NONHUMAN; PEROMYSCUS; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASONAL VARIATION; STUPOR; THERMOREGULATION;

ACTIVITY CYCLES; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FATTY ACIDS; PEROMYSCUS; PHOTOPERIOD; WASHINGTON;

MAMMALIA; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS;

EID: 33947373030     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-006-0193-z     Document Type: Article

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