Idle slow as you grow old: Longitudinal age-related metabolic decline in a wild passerine

Evolutionary Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 177-184

  Broggi, Juli ^a   Hohtola, Esa ^a   Koivula, Kari ^a   Orell, Markku ^a   Nilsson, Jan Åke ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aging; Basal metabolic rate; Functional senescence; Parus major; Rate of living free radical damage hypothesis

Indexed keywords

AGING; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; METABOLISM; PASSERINE; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; POPULATION DECLINE; SENESCENCE; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMALIA; PARUS MAJOR; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 75549087999     PISSN: 02697653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10682-009-9299-z     Document Type: Article

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