A seasonal difference of daily energy expenditure in a free-living subterranean rodent, the silvery mole-rat (Heliophobius argenteocinereus; Bathyergidae)

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 158, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 17-21

  Zelová, Jitka ^a   Šumbera, Radim ^a   Okrouhlík, Jan ^a   Šklíba, Jan ^a   Lövy, Matěj ^a   Burda, Hynek ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Daily energy expenditure; Doubly labelled water method; Heliophobius; Resting metabolic rate; Seasonality; Subterranean rodent

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ARTICLE; BURROWING SPECIES; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; ENERGY TRANSFER; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; METABOLIC RATE; MOLE RAT; NONHUMAN; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ANIMALIA; BATHYERGIDAE; HELIOPHOBIUS; HELIOPHOBIUS ARGENTEOCINEREUS; MAMMALIA; RATTUS; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 78649636453     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2010.07.026     Document Type: Article

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