Mammalian hibernation: Physiology, cell signaling, and gene controls on metabolic rate depression

Topics in Current Genetics

Volumn 21, Issue , 2010, Pages 227-252

  Storey, Kenneth B ^a   Heldmaier, Gerhard ^b   Rider, Mark H ^c  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

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EID: 77955944244     PISSN: 16102096     EISSN: 16106970     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-12422-8_13     Document Type: Article

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