Plasticity in body temperature and metabolic capacity sustains winter activity in a small endotherm (Rattus fuscipes)

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 155, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 383-391

  Glanville, Elsa J ^a   Seebacher, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acclimatization; Energy savings; Fur thickness; Gene expression; Mitochondria; Uncoupling proteins

Indexed keywords

CITRATE SYNTHASE; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FOOD COMPOSITION; METABOLIC CAPACITY; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHENOTYPE; PLASTICITY; RAT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION; THERMOGENESIS; THICKNESS; WINTER;

MAMMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS FUSCIPES;

EID: 74449091178     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2009.12.008     Document Type: Article

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