Energetics in a solitary subterranean rodent, the silvery mole-rat, Heliophobius argenteocinereus, and allometry of RMR in African mole-rats (Bathyergidae)

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 147, Issue 2 SPEC. ISS., 2007, Pages 412-419

  Zelová, Jitka ^a   Šumbera, Radim ^a   Sedláček, František ^a,b   Burda, Hynek ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Allometry; Bathyergidae; Heliophobius; Resting metabolism; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY TRANSFER; HELIOPHOBIUS ARGENTEOCINEREUS; METABOLIC RATE; MOLE RAT; NONHUMAN; RODENT; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMOREGULATION;

BATHYERGIDAE; CRYPTOMYS HOTTENTOTUS; HELIOPHOBIUS; HELIOPHOBIUS ARGENTEOCINEREUS; MAMMALIA; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 34247215534     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2007.01.002     Document Type: Article

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