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Heritability of energetics in a wild mammal, the leaf-eared mouse (Phyllotis darwini).
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Jul 2003
Nespolo Roberto F, Bacigalupe Leonardo D, Bozinovic Francisco
Abstract excerpt
As a first examination of the additive genetic variance of thermoregulatory traits in a natural population of endotherms, we studied the quantitative genetics of key physiological ecology traits in the leaf-eared mouse, Phyllotis darwini. We measured basal metabolic rate (BMR), nonshivering thermogenesis (NST), maximum metabolic rate for thermoregulation (MMR), thermal conductance (CT), body temperature (Tb), and...
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