Warmer ambient temperatures depress liver function in a mammalian herbivore

Biology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Kurnath, Patrice ^a   Dearing, M Denise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambient temperature; Climate change; Herbivore; Hypnotic state assay; Liver metabolism; Plant secondary compounds

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HERBIVORE; MAMMAL; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; SECONDARY METABOLITE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TOXICITY TEST;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; NEOTOMA; NEOTOMA LEPIDA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DIET; HEAT; HERBIVORY; LIVER; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGMODONTINAE; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; DIET; HERBIVORY; HOT TEMPERATURE; LIVER; SIGMODONTINAE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84947772585     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2013.0562     Document Type: Article

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