Running speed in mammals increases with muscle n-6 polyunsaturated fatty acid content

PLoS ONE

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Ruf, Thomas ^a   Valencak, Teresa ^a   Tataruch, Frieda ^a   Arnold, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OMEGA 6 FATTY ACID; PHOSPHOLIPID;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELEPHANT; FATTY ACID ANALYSIS; FITNESS; HYPOTHESIS; LIPID COMPOSITION; LOCOMOTION; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR AVOIDANCE; PREY SELECTION; RUNNING; SHREW; SKELETAL MUSCLE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HARE; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; ELEPHANTIDAE; LEPUS CAPENSIS; LEPUS EUROPAEUS; MAMMALIA; SORICIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; FATTY ACIDS, OMEGA-6; HARES; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; MAMMALS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; PHYLOGENY; RUNNING;

EID: 40449129305     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000065     Document Type: Article

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