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Metabolic cost of osmoregulation in a hypertonic environment in the invasive African clawed frog Xenopus laevis

Studies of aquatic invertebrates reveal that salinity affects feeding and growth rates, reproduction, survival, and diversity. Little is known, however, about how salinity impacts the energy budget of vertebrates and amphibians in particular. The few studies focused on this topic in vertebrates sugg...

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Autores principales: Peña-Villalobos, Isaac, Narváez, Cristóbal, Sabat, Pablo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Company of Biologists Ltd 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4958268/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27334694
http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/bio.016543