Hummingbird flight: Sustaining the highest mass-specific metabolic rates among vertebrates

1992/06/01 by Raul K. Suarez, R. K. Suarez · 6 citations
Environmental Science · Medicine · Neuroscience · #Adipose Tissue and Metabolism #Biochemistry #Biology #Cell biology #Ecology #Endocrinology #Evolutionary biology #Gene #Homeothermy #Hummingbird #Metabolic rate #Mitochondrion #Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research #Physiological and biochemical adaptations #Vertebrate #Zoology

paper · doi:10.1007/bf01920240

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