Seasonal upregulation of fatty acid transporters in flight muscles of migratory white-throated sparrows (Zonotrichia albicollis)

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 212, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 2934-2940

  McFarlan, Jay T ^a,b   Bonen, Arend ^b   Guglielmo, Christopher G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bird; Exercise; Lipid; Metabolism; Migration; Oxidative enzymes

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID; FATTY ACID BINDING PROTEIN; ISOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ENDURANCE; FEMALE; FLYING; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; SEASON; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPARROW; UPREGULATION;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; FATTY ACID-BINDING PROTEINS; FATTY ACIDS; FEMALE; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEASONS; SPARROWS; UP-REGULATION;

AVES; MAMMALIA; PASSERIDAE; PASSERIFORMES; ZONOTRICHIA ALBICOLLIS;

EID: 69549098139     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.031682     Document Type: Article

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