Basal metabolism is correlated with habitat productivity among populations of degus (Octodon degus)

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 152, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 560-564

  Bozinovic, Francisco ^a   Rojas, José M ^a   Broitman, Bernardo R ^a,b   Vásquez, Rodrigo A ^c  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL NORTE   (Chile)

^c INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA Y BIODIVERSIDAD IEB   (Chile)

Author keywords

Energetics; Food habit hypothesis; Interpopulational Intraspecific physiological variability; Octodon degus (Rodentia, Octodontidae)

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CAVIOMORPHA; MAMMALIA; OCTODON DEGUS; OCTODONTIDAE; RODENTIA;

EID: 60449115557     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2008.12.015     Document Type: Article

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