Effect of diet quality and soil hardness on metabolic rate in the subterranean rodent Ctenomys talarum

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 154, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 298-307

  Perissinotti, Paula P ^a   Antenucci, C Daniel ^a,b   Zenuto, Roxana ^a,b   Luna, Facundo ^a,b  

^a Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Coprophagy; Ctenomys; Digestive efficiency; Metabolic rate; Octodontidae; Subterranean rodent; Thermal stress; Tuco tuco

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY TEMPERATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; DIGESTION; ENERGY; FECES LEVEL; FOOD INTAKE; HEAT; INTESTINE TRANSIT TIME; LOCOMOTION; MALE; METABOLIC RATE; NONHUMAN; RODENT; SOIL CHANGE; WORK;

ANIMALIA; CTENOMYS; CTENOMYS TALARUM; OCTODONTIDAE; RODENTIA;

ANIMALS; BASAL METABOLISM; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY TEMPERATURE; COPROPHAGIA; DIET; DIGESTION; EATING; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; MALE; RODENTIA; SOIL;

EID: 70149123637     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2009.05.013     Document Type: Article

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