A Phylogenetic approach to total evaporative water loss in mammals

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 526-532

  Van Sant, Matthew J ^a   Oufiero, Christopher E ^b,e   Muñoz Garcia, Agustí ^c   Hammond, Kimberly A ^a   Williams, Joseph B ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e TOWSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARID ENVIRONMENT; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EVAPORATION; MAMMAL; NATURAL SELECTION; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RELATEDNESS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY WATER; BODY WEIGHT; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; MAMMAL; METABOLISM; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THERMOREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BODY WATER; BODY WEIGHT; ECOSYSTEM; MAMMALS; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WATER LOSS, INSENSIBLE;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84865519330     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/667579     Document Type: Article

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