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Homeostasis of the Nonfat Components of Migrating Birds
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Obesity in migratory birds appears to differ from obesity in man in that gains and losses in body weight do not involve changes in the tissue structure of the body; fat is added to and used from preexisting tissue spaces without appreciable change in the water content or the nonfat dry weight of the body as a whole. Evidence is presented which supports the hypothesis that the nonfat body is essentially homeostatic during migration despite very large scale changes in total body weight.
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- Authors
- Odum, E. P., Rogers, D. T., & Hicks, D. L.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 1964-03-06
- Volume
- 143
- Issue
- 3610
- Pages
- 1037-1039
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
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- W2076813561
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- 228
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- FWCI
- 97.24
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- journal article
- Language
- en
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- closed
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