Physiological and biochemical basis of basal metabolic rates in Brandt's voles (Lasiopodomys brandtii) and Mongolian gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus)

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 157, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 204-211

  Li, Yong Guo ^a,b   Yan, Zhong Cheng ^b   Wang, De Hua ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b CAPITAL NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Basal metabolic rate; Brandt's voles (Lasiopodomys brandtii); Citrate synthase activity; Cytochrome c oxidase activity; Mongolian gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus); Thyroid hormone

Indexed keywords

CITRATE SYNTHASE; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; LIOTHYRONINE; THYROID HORMONE; THYROXINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; BODY MASS; BODY TEMPERATURE; CRICETIDAE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GERBIL; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; LASIOPODOMYS BRANDTII; MALE; MERIONES UNGUICULATUS; MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; PROTEIN CONTENT; THYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL;

LASIOPODOMYS BRANDTII; MERIONES UNGUICULATUS; MURIDAE; RODENTIA;

EID: 77956183146     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2010.06.183     Document Type: Article

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