The performing animal: causes and consequences of body remodeling and metabolic adjustments in red knots facing contrasting thermal environments.

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• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  American Journal of Physiology. Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

• Publication date

  2017-04-24

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1152/ajpregu.00453.2016PMID 28438763
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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