Oxygen consumption and thermoregulatory responses in three species of South American marsupials

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 147, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 658-664

  Ribeiro, Marcel Cintra Pereira ^a   Bicudo, José Eduardo Pereira Wilken ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Body temperature; Maximal sustained exercise; Neotropical marsupials; Oxygen consumption; Resting metabolic rate; Thermoregulation; Wet thermal conductance

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARBOREAL SPECIES; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY TEMPERATURE; CALUROMYS PHILANDER; COLD EXPOSURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EATING; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; FRUIT; INSECT; MALE; MARSUPIAL; METACHIRUS NUDICAUDATUS; MUSCLE MASS; NONHUMAN; OMNIVORE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHILANDER OPOSSUM; PHYLOGENY; REST; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SOUTH AMERICA; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMOREGULATION; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

CALUROMYS PHILANDER; DIDELPHIDAE; DIDELPHIMORPHIA; HEXAPODA; METACHIRUS NUDICAUDATUS; METATHERIA; PHILANDER OPOSSUM;

EID: 34248597631     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2006.08.024     Document Type: Article

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