Cutaneous water loss and the development of the stratum corneum of nestling house sparrows (passer domesticus) from desert and mesic environments

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 277-286

  Muñoz Garcia, Agusti ^a,b   Williams, Joseph B ^a  

^a Aronoff Laboratory   (United States)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DESERT; EPIDEMIC; EVAPORATION; HYDRATION; LIPID; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NESTLING; ONTOGENY; PASSERINE; WATER USE;

OHIO; SAUDI ARABIA; UNITED STATES;

AVES; PASSER DOMESTICUS;

EID: 79955935039     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/659372     Document Type: Article

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