Body temperature and resistance to evaporative water loss in tropical Australian frogs

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 150, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 102-108

  Tracy, Christopher R ^a   Christian, Keith A ^a   Betts, Gregory ^a   Tracy, C Richard ^b  

^a CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cutaneous resistance; Evaporative water loss; Hylid frogs; Phylogenetic comparisons; Temperature

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY WATER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVAPORATION; FROG; NONHUMAN; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; WATER LOSS;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; HYLIDAE; MYOBATRACHIDAE;

EID: 44849136497     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2006.04.031     Document Type: Article

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