Extreme individual flexibility of heterothermy in free-ranging Malagasy mouse lemurs (Microcebus griseorufus)

Journal of Comparative Physiology B: Biochemical, Systemic, and Environmental Physiology

Volumn 181, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 165-173

  Kobbe, Susanne ^a   Ganzhorn, Jörg U ^a   Dausmann, Kathrin H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Daily torpor; Hibernation; Individual plasticity; Prolonged torpor; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

LEMURIDAE; MICROCEBUS GRISEORUFUS; MICROCEBUS MURINUS;

EID: 78650766272     PISSN: 01741578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00360-010-0507-5     Document Type: Article

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