Development of maximum metabolic rate and pulmonary diffusing capacity in the superprecocial Australian Brush Turkey Alectura lathami: An allometric and morphometric study

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 150, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 169-175

  Seymour, Roger S ^a   Runciman, Sue ^b   Baudinette, Russell V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Bird; Diffusion; Growth; Juvenile; Lung; Respiration; Stereology; Symmophosis

Indexed keywords

ALECTURA LATHAMI; ALLOMETRY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; BODY SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HATCHING; HATCHLING; LUNG DIFFUSION CAPACITY; LUNG GAS EXCHANGE; METABOLIC RATE; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PELICAN; RESPIROMETRY; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TURKEY (BIRD);

ALECTURA LATHAMI; AVES; MEGAPODIIDAE; PELECANIDAE; PELECANUS CONSPICILLATUS;

EID: 44849129748     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2006.03.018     Document Type: Article

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