Research in avian metabolic physiology has increasingly focused on how birds adjust energy expenditure and thermogenic output to cope with fluctuating environmental conditions. Central to this field ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract During the reproductive cycle, the females of avian species metabolize large amounts of calcium, deposit large amounts of apatite in ...

Researchers examined how heat impacts the behavior and physiology of Zebra finches. They discovered that heat altered the activity of hundreds of genes in the testis, but fewer in the brain, ...

1. A higher proportion of long-lived animals die from senescence than short-lived animals, yet many long-lived homeotherms show few signs of physiological ageing in the wild. This may, however, differ ...

Symposium sponsored by the Division of Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry, American Society of Zoologists and presented at the annual meeting in Tampa, Florida ...