ArticleJournal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology2018
No effect of season on the electrocardiogram of long-eared bats (Nyctophilus gouldi) during torpor.
Article in Journal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- From electrocardiography to energetics: methods, constraints, and practical considerations for heart rate biologging in small animals.Journal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology · 2026Review
- Heart rate biologging as a tool to understand the energetic needs of life history states.Conservation physiology · 2026Article
- The distress context of social calls evokes a fear response in the bat Pipistrellus abramus.The Journal of experimental biology · 2023Article
- Pronounced differences in heart rate and metabolism distinguish daily torpor and short-term hibernation in two bat species.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- High heart rate associated early repolarization causes J-waves in both zebra finch and mouse.Physiological reports · 2021Article
- Seasonal Expression of Avian and Mammalian Daily Torpor and Hibernation: Not a Simple Summer-Winter AffairFrontiers in physiology · 2020Review
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Abstract
Heterothermic animals regularly undergo profound alterations of cardiac function associated with torpor. These animals have specialised tissues capable of withstanding fluctuations in body temperature > 30 °C without adverse effects. In particular, the hearts of heterotherms are able to resist fibrillation and discontinuity of the cardiac conduction system common in homeotherms during hypothermia. To investigate the patterns of cardiac conduction in small insectivorous bats which enter torpor year round, I simultaneously measured ECG and subcutaneous temperature (T
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