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Cellular metabolic rate is influenced by life-history traits in tropical and temperate birds.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2014
Jimenez Ana Gabriela, Van Brocklyn James, Wortman Matthew, Williams Joseph B
Abstract excerpt
In general, tropical birds have a "slow pace of life," lower rates of whole-animal metabolism and higher survival rates, than temperate species. A fundamental challenge facing physiological ecologists is the understanding of how variation in life-history at the whole-organism level might be linked to cellular function. Because tropical birds have lower rates of whole-animal metabolism, we hypothesized that cells...
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