The interplay of energy balance and daily timing of activity in a subterranean rodent: A laboratory and field approach

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 546-552

  Tachinardi, Patricia ^a   Valentinuzzi, Verónica S ^b   Oda, Gisele A ^a   Lorenbuck, C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Centro Regional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Transferencia Tecnologia   (Argentina)

^c NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity patterns; Circadian thermoenergetics (CTE) hypothesis; Ctenomys; Diurnality; Metabolic rate; Nocturnality; Respirometry; Tuco tuco

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; BIOENERGETICS; DIURNAL VARIATION; ENERGY BALANCE; FIELD METHOD; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LABORATORY METHOD; METABOLISM; NOCTURNAL ACTIVITY; PREDATION RISK; RODENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; THERMOREGULATION;

ANIMALIA; CTENOMYS; RODENTIA;

SOIL;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; RODENT; SOIL;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; MALE; RODENTIA; SOIL;

EID: 85022089285     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/693003     Document Type: Article

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