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ArticleBiology open2021

Sex differences in postprandial blood glucose and body surface temperature are contingent on flight in the fruit bat,

Venkatesh Nagarajan-Radha, Paramanantha Swami Doss Devaraj

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Article in Biology open, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Venkatesh Nagarajan-RadhaSchool of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton Campus, Victoria 3800, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-2386-4093
Paramanantha Swami Doss DevarajCentre for Behavioural and Immuno Ecology, Department of Zoology, St. John's College, Palayamkottai 627002, Tamil Nadu, India chiropteranethology@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0001-8602-6612
Monash University · AU

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The postprandial blood glucose level is very high for the body size in frugivorous bats. Like other homeotherms, bats release heat during digestion of dietary macronutrients. Despite males and females of the same species exhibiting different foraging behaviour, empirical support for sex differences in blood glucose and body surface temperature in fruit bats is poor. Moreover, while flight affects postprandial metabolism, whether such effects are different in each sex of fruit bats is unclear. Here, we studied these questions in the fruit bat,

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Blood GlucoseBody TemperatureFlight, AnimalPostprandial PeriodAnimalsChiropteraEnergy MetabolismFemaleMaleQuantitative Trait, HeritableSex FactorsBlood GlucoseHigh-sugar dietHyperglycaemiaIntralocus sexual conflictNutritional ecologyPhysical activityThermal imagingThermogenesis

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PMID33509836
PMCPMC7903995
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