Phenotypic flexibility in cutaneous water loss and lipids of the stratum corneum in house sparrows (Passer domesticus) following acclimation to high and low humidity

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 87-96

  Muñoz Garcia, Agustí ^a   Cox, Robert M ^a   Williams, Joseph B ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATION; HUMIDITY; LIPID; PASSERINE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY;

AVES; PASSER DOMESTICUS; PASSERIDAE;

LIPID; WATER;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMIDITY; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; SKIN; SPARROW;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMALS; HUMIDITY; LIPIDS; PHENOTYPE; SKIN; SPARROWS; WATER;

EID: 38749087290     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/522651     Document Type: Article

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