Chronic food shortage and seasonal modulations of daily torpor and locomotor activity in the grey mouse lemur (Microcebus murinus)

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 294, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Giroud, Sylvain ^a,b   Blanc, Stéphane ^b   Aujard, Fabienne ^a   Bertrand, Frédéric ^c   Gilbert, Caroline ^b   Perret, Martine ^a,b,c  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHES SUBATOMIQUES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LOUIS PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

Body temperature; Climate change; Daily rhythm; Energy balance; Photoperiod

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY TEMPERATURE; CALORIC RESTRICTION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENERGY BALANCE; FOOD DEPRIVATION; FOOD INTAKE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LOCOMOTION; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSIMIAN; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER; WINTER; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ENERGY METABOLISM; HIBERNATION; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY TEMPERATURE; CHEIROGALEIDAE; ENERGY METABOLISM; FOOD DEPRIVATION; HIBERNATION; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHOTOPERIOD; SEASONS;

EID: 47549113260     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00794.2007     Document Type: Article

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