Huddling: Brown Fat, Genomic Imprinting and the Warm Inner Glow

Current Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Haig, David ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; COOPERATION; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOME IMPRINTING; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PENGUIN; PHYSIOLOGY; RABBIT; SHORT SURVEY; THERMOREGULATION;

ADIPOCYTES, BROWN; ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MICE; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; RABBITS; SPHENISCIDAE;

ANIMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 39149113139     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2007.12.040     Document Type: Short Survey

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