Fowl play and the price of petrel: Long-living Procellariiformes have peroxidation-resistant membrane composition compared with short-living Galliformes

Biology Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 351-354

  Buttemer, William A ^a   Battam, Harry ^a   Hulbert, A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fowl; Lipid peroxidation; Longevity; Petrels; Polyunsaturates

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PHOSPHOLIPID;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; LONGEVITY; MEMBRANE; OXIDATION; SEABIRD;

ALBATROSS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GALLIFORMES; HEART MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE; LIPID COMPOSITION; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LONGEVITY; METABOLIC RATE; NONHUMAN; PETREL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEABIRD;

DIOMEDEIDAE; GALLIFORMES; PROCELLARIIDAE; PROCELLARIIFORMES;

EID: 46949111050     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0145     Document Type: Article

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