How does evolutionary variation in basal metabolic rates arise? A statistical assessment and a mechanistic model

Evolution

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1463-1476

  Naya, Daniel E ^a   Spangenberg, Lucía ^b   Naya, Hugo ^a,b   Bozinovic, Francisco ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR DE MONTEVIDEO   (Uruguay)

^c PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Endothermy; Energetic; Macrophysiology; Organ size; Rodents

Indexed keywords

ARIDITY; BIOENERGETICS; CLIMATE EFFECT; ENDOTHERMY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HABITAT QUALITY; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; METABOLISM; MORPHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RODENT; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TROPHIC STATUS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; RODENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BASAL METABOLISM; CLIMATE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; MODELS, GENETIC; RODENTIA;

RODENTIA;

EID: 84876843367     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/evo.12042     Document Type: Article

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