Metabolic ageing in individual zebra finches

Biology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 86-89

  Moe, Børge ^a,c   Rønning, Bernt ^a   Verhulst, Simon ^b   Bech, Claus ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Ageing; Basal metabolic rate; Energy metabolism; Senescence; Taeniopygia guttata; Zebra finches

Indexed keywords

AGING POPULATION; BIOENERGETICS; BODY MASS; METABOLISM; MORTALITY; PASSERINE; SENESCENCE;

AGING; ARTICLE; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; BODY MASS; FEMALE; FINCH; GENDER; LIFESPAN; MALE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; BODY SIZE; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AVES; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

AGING; ANIMALS; BASAL METABOLISM; BODY SIZE; FEMALE; FINCHES; MALE; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 63249103048     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0481     Document Type: Article

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