Running behavior and its energy cost in mice selectively bred for high voluntary locomotor activity

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 662-679

  Rezende, Enrico L ^a   Gomes, Fernando R ^a,b   Chappell, Mark A ^a   Garland Jr , Theodore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOENERGETICS; BODY MASS; ENERGY BUDGET; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FITNESS; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LIFE HISTORY; LOCOMOTION; MIGRATION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; RODENT; SELECTION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CROSS BREEDING; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; MALE; MOUSE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; RUNNING; SEX DIFFERENCE; TIME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY SIZE; CROSSES, GENETIC; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; RUNNING; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 67649307552     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/605917     Document Type: Article

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