Huddling: brown fat, genomic imprinting and the warm inner glow.

Heat generated by huddling animals is a public good with a private cost and thus vulnerable to exploitation, as illustrated by recent work on rabbits and penguins. Effects of imprinted genes on brown adipose tissue suggest that non-shivering thermogenesis is an arena for intragenomic conflict.

• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  Current Biology

• Publication date

  2008-02-26

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/j.cub.2007.12.040PMID 18302923
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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