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Brown Adipose Tissue in Cetacean Blubber
Brown adipose tissue (BAT) plays an important role in thermoregulation in species living in cold environments, given heat can be generated from its chemical energy reserves. Here we investigate the existence of BAT in blubber in four species of delphinoid cetacean, the Pacific white-sided and bottle...
| Autores principales: | , , , , , , , , , , , , , |
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2015
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4342347/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25719384 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0116734 |