Carbon turnover in tissues of a passerine bird: Allometry, isotopic clocks, and phenotypic flexibility in organ size

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 787-797

  Bauchinger, Ulf ^a,b,c   McWilliams, Scott ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

ALLOMETRY; BIOACCUMULATION; BLOOD; CARBON ISOTOPE; FLIGHT; METABOLISM; MUSCLE; PASSERINE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PROTEIN; RESOURCE USE; SKIN; STABLE ISOTOPE; TURNOVER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BRAIN; FINCH; HISTOLOGY; ISOTOPE LABELING; METABOLISM; ORGAN SIZE; PHENOTYPE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SKIN; VISCERA;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CARBON ISOTOPES; FINCHES; ISOTOPE LABELING; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; ORGAN SIZE; PHENOTYPE; SKIN; VISCERA;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PASSERIFORMES; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

EID: 73449092859     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/605548     Document Type: Article

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