Biological Plasticity in Penguin Heat-Retention Structures

Anatomical Record

Volumn 295, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 249-256

  Thomas, Daniel B ^a   Fordyce, R Ewan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Eudyptes sclateri; Heat retention; Megadyptes antipodes; Penguin; Vascular system

Indexed keywords

ARTERY; ARTICLE; EUDYPTES SCLATERI; FORELIMB; HEAT LOSS; HUMERUS ARTERIAL PLEXUS; NONHUMAN; PENGUIN; PHYLOGENY; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMOREGULATION;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ARTERIES; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; HUMERUS; SELECTION, GENETIC; SPHENISCIDAE; WING;

APTENODYTES FORSTERI; EUDYPTES; EUDYPTES SCLATERI; EUDYPTULA MINOR; MEGADYPTES; MEGADYPTES ANTIPODES; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 84855758934     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.21538     Document Type: Article

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