Filters: Department: "Biology" Format: "application/pdf" Collection: "ir_uspace" Subject: "Metabolism"
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Farmer, Colleen G. | Parental care: the key to understanding endothermy and other convergent features in birds and mammals | Birds and mammals share a number of features that are remarkably similar but that have evolved independently. One of these characters, endothermy, has been suggested to have played a cardinal role in avian and mammalian evolution. I hypothesize that it is parental care, rather than endothermy, that ... | Evolution; Metabolism; Convergence | 2000 |
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Farmer, Colleen G. | Reproduction: the adaptive significance of endothermy | A central theme raised by Angilletta and Sears is that the energetic cost of endothermy is too enormous to be offset by the benefits that thermogenesis could provide for reproduction. Angilletta and Sears suggest that parents would have been better off producing additional offspring with the energy ... | Parental care; Incubation; Metabolism | 2003 |
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