Testosterone effects on avian basal metabolic rate and aerobic performance: Facts and artefacts

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 150, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 204-210

  Buttemer, W A ^a   Warne, S ^a   Bech, C ^a,b   Astheimer, L B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Aerobic scope; Basal metabolic rate; Cage effects; House sparrows; Muscle mass; Oxygen consumption rate; Peak metabolic rate; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

SILASTIC; TESTOSTERONE;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; CAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG IMPLANT; FORELIMB; LEG MUSCLE; MUSCLE MASS; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; SPARROW;

AVES; PASSER DOMESTICUS; PASSERIDAE;

EID: 44849124788     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2006.06.047     Document Type: Article

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