Bioenergetic modeling reveals that Chinese green tree vipers select postprandial temperatures in laboratory thermal gradients that maximize net energy intake

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 154, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 394-400

  Tsai, Tein Shun ^a   Lee, How Jing ^b   Tu, Ming Chung ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Feeding frequency; Meal size; Metabolic rate; Multiple regressions; Rate and efficiency; Specific dynamic action

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOENERGY; CALORIC INTAKE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TREE;

REPTILIA; SERPENTES; TRIMERESURUS; VIRIDOVIPERA STEJNEGERI;

ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY INTAKE; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POSTPRANDIAL PERIOD; TEMPERATURE; TRIMERESURUS;

EID: 70149087719     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2009.07.011     Document Type: Article

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