Dietary lipid composition and avian migratory flight performance: Development of a theoretical framework for avian fat storage

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 157, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 297-309

  Price, Edwin R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Birds; Exercise; Fatty acids; Migration; Peroxisome proliferator; Phospholipids; Selective mobilization

Indexed keywords

FAT; FATTY ACID; LIPID; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR;

BIRD; CHEMICAL BOND; EXERCISE; FLIGHT; FLYING; LIPID COMPOSITION; LIPID DIET; LIPID STORAGE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; POPULATION MIGRATION; REVIEW;

AVES;

EID: 77957263698     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2010.05.019     Document Type: Review

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