Shifts in metabolic demands in growing altricial nestlings illustrate context-specific relationships between basal metabolic rate and body composition

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 248-257

  Vézina, Fraņois ^a,b   Love, Oliver P ^a   Lessard, Mylaine ^a   Williams, Tony D ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE CLASS; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; BIOENERGETICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GROWTH; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; METABOLISM; NESTLING; PASSERINE;

ANIMALIA; STURNUS VULGARIS;

AGING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WEIGHT; ENERGY METABOLISM; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEART; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SONGBIRD;

AGING; ANIMALS; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WEIGHT; ENERGY METABOLISM; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HEART; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 67149084353     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/597548     Document Type: Article

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