ArticleScientific reports2018
Large muscles are beneficial but not required for improving thermogenic capacity in small birds.
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- Skeletal muscle and metabolic flexibility in response to changing energy demands in wild birds.Frontiers in physiology · 2022Review
- Efficacy and Function of Feathers, Hair, and Glabrous Skin in the Thermoregulation Strategies of Domestic Animals.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Review
- Seasonal variation in body composition in an Afrotropical passerine bird: increases in pectoral muscle mass are, unexpectedly, associated with lower thermogenic capacity.Journal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology · 2020Article
- Consequences of being phenotypically mismatched with the environment: rapid muscle ultrastructural changes in cold-shocked black-capped chickadees (American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology · 2020Article
- Metabolic Flexibility in Response to Within-Season Temperature Variability in House Sparrows.Integrative organismal biology (Oxford, England) · 2020Article
- Within-winter flexibility in muscle and heart lipid transport and catabolism in passerine birds.Journal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology · 2019Article
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Abstract
It is generally assumed that small birds improve their shivering heat production capacity by developing the size of their pectoralis muscles. However, some studies have reported an enhancement of thermogenic capacity in the absence of muscle mass variation between seasons or thermal treatments. We tested the hypothesis that an increase in muscle mass is not a prerequisite for improving avian thermogenic capacity. We measured basal (BMR) and summit (M
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