Adjusting energy expenditures to energy supply: Food availability regulates torpor use and organ size in the Chilean mouse-opossum Thylamys elegans

Journal of Comparative Physiology B: Biochemical, Systemic, and Environmental Physiology

Volumn 177, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 393-400

  Bozinovic, Francisco ^a   Muñoz, José L P ^a   Naya, Daniel E ^a   Cruz Neto, Ariovaldo P ^b  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Body temperature; Energy requirements; Food abundance; Marsupials; Torpor frequency

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CALORIC RESTRICTION; CHILE; EATING; ENERGY METABOLISM; HIBERNATION; HISTOLOGY; OPOSSUM; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; VISCERA;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; CALORIC RESTRICTION; CHILE; EATING; ENERGY METABOLISM; HIBERNATION; OPOSSUMS; ORGAN SIZE; VISCERA;

ANIMALIA; DIDELPHIDAE; MARMOSA; METATHERIA; THYLAMYS ELEGANS;

EID: 34247200953     PISSN: 01741578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00360-006-0137-0     Document Type: Article

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