The relationship between body temperature, heart rate, breathing rate, and rate of oxygen consumption, in the tegu lizard (Tupinambis merianae) at various levels of activity

Journal of Comparative Physiology B: Biochemical, Systemic, and Environmental Physiology

Volumn 185, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 891-903

  Piercy, Joanna ^a   Rogers, Kip ^a   Reichert, Michelle ^a   Andrade, Denis V ^b   Abe, Augusto S ^b   Tattersall, Glenn J ^c   Milsom, William K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^c BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Body temperature; Breathing rate; Heart rate; Metabolic rate; Tegu lizard

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BREATHING RATE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ENERGY METABOLISM; HEART RATE; LIZARD; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; THERMOREGULATION;

ACTIVITY CYCLES; ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ENERGY METABOLISM; HEART RATE; LIZARDS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; RESPIRATORY RATE;

EID: 84946487237     PISSN: 01741578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00360-015-0927-3     Document Type: Article

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