Digestion in an Ectothermic Herbivore, the Green Iguana (Iguana iguana): Effect of Food Composition and Body Temperature
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Oxygen transport by the circulatory system of the green iguana (Iguana iguana) at different body temperatures.
Since the early investigations of Cowles & Bogert (1944), it has become established that many lizards when active under natural conditions have mean body temperatures that are several degrees higher than air temperature in the shade and are relatively constant (Brattstrom, 1965). This difference between the mean (or eccritic) body temperature and air temperature is maintained primarily by absor...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physiological Zoology
سال: 1992
ISSN: 0031-935X
DOI: 10.1086/physzool.65.3.30157975