Climate variability and the energetic pathways of evolution: The origin of endothermy in mammals and birds

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 959-981

  Pörtner, Hans O ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADAPTATION; BIOENERGETICS; BIRD; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENDOTHERMY; EVOLUTION; MAMMAL; METABOLISM;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; BIRD; CELL MEMBRANE; CLIMATE; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; INVERTEBRATE; MAMMAL; MITOCHONDRION; PHYSIOLOGY; REPTILE; THERMOGENESIS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIRDS; CELL MEMBRANE; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; INVERTEBRATES; MAMMALS; MITOCHONDRIA; OXYGEN; REPTILES; THERMOGENESIS;

ANIMALIA; AVES; DINOSAURIA; EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA; METAZOA;

EID: 3543017038     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/423742     Document Type: Conference Paper

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