Body temperature patterns in two syntopic elephant shrew species during winter

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 161, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 89-94

  Boyles, Justin G ^a   Smit, Ben ^a   Sole, Catherine L ^a   McKechnie, Andrew E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Elephantulus; Heterothermy; Sengi; Torpor

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY TEMPERATURE; ECOLOGY; ELEPHANT; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; TEMPERATURE; WINTER; AFRICA; ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; SHREW; SOUTH AFRICA; THERMOREGULATION;

ELEPHANTULUS; ELEPHANTULUS EDWARDII; ELEPHANTULUS RUPESTRIS; SORICIDAE;

CYTOCHROME B;

AFRICA, WESTERN; ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; CYTOCHROMES B; ECOSYSTEM; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; PHYLOGENY; SEASONS; SHREWS; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84858226844     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2011.09.007     Document Type: Article

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