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Effects of food store quality on hibernation performance in common hamsters

Hibernating animals can adjust torpor expression according to available energy reserves. Besides the quantity, the quality of energy reserves could play an important role for overwintering strategies. Common hamsters are food-storing hibernators and show high individual variation in hibernation perf...

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Autores principales: Siutz, Carina, Nemeth, Matthias, Wagner, Karl-Heinz, Quint, Ruth, Ruf, Thomas, Millesi, Eva
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5646777/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29045417
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0185913