Relationship between exercise capacity and brain size in mammals

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Raichlen, David A ^a   Gordon, Adam D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBRAL METABOLIC RATE OF OXYGEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; EXERCISE; EXERCISE INTENSITY; LOCOMOTION; MAMMAL; MAXIMUM METABOLIC RATE; METABOLIC RATE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; BODY SIZE; BRAIN; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; BASAL METABOLISM; BODY SIZE; BRAIN; HUMANS; MAMMALS; ORGAN SIZE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL;

EID: 79959411108     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020601     Document Type: Article

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