Mammalian endothermy optimally restricts fungi and metabolic costs

mBio

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Bergman, Aviv ^a   Casadevall, Arturo ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; INFECTION RESISTANCE; METABOLIC RATE; MODEL; MYCOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTION;

ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; ENERGY METABOLISM; FUNGI; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MYCOSES;

FUNGI; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79952161654     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00212-10     Document Type: Article

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