Making no bones about it: Bone mineral density changes seasonally in a nonhibernating alaskan rodent

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 25-31

  Stevenson, Kalb Thayer ^a,b   Van Tets, Ian Gerard ^a   Chon, Don Young ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity; Alaska; Arvicolinae; Body mass; Bone mineral density; High latitude; Myodes rutilus; Osteopenia seasonality; Winter

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; BONE; DENSITY; HORMONE; PHOTOPERIOD; REPRODUCTION; RODENT; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ARVICOLINAE; CLETHRIONOMYS RUTILUS; MURIDAE; RODENTIA; RUTILUS;

EID: 61349122675     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/08-MAMM-A-012.1     Document Type: Article

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