Total energy expenditure and body composition in two free-living sympatric lemurs

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Simmen, Bruno ^a   Bayart, Françoise ^a   Rasamimanana, Hanta ^b   Zahariev, Alexandre ^c   Blanc, Stéphane ^c   Pasquet, Patrick ^a  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTANANARIVO   (Madagascar)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHES SUBATOMIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; FAT CONTENT; FEMALE; LEMURIDAE; MALE; METABOLIC RATE; NONHUMAN; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER TRANSPORT; ANIMAL; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; BODY WATER; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MADAGASCAR; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

EULEMUR; EULEMUR FULVUS; LEMUR CATTA; LEMURIDAE; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES; STREPSIRHINI;

ANIMALS; BASAL METABOLISM; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WATER; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; LEMUR; MADAGASCAR; MALE; SEASONS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

EID: 78650046887     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009860     Document Type: Article

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