Publication Date:
2015-05-30
Description:
Grady et al. (Reports, 13 June 2014, p. 1268) suggested that nonavian dinosaur metabolism was neither endothermic nor ectothermic but an intermediate physiology termed "mesothermic." However, rates were improperly scaled and phylogenetic, physiological, and temporal categories of animals were conflated during analyses. Accounting for these issues suggests that nonavian dinosaurs were on average as endothermic as extant placental mammals.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉D'Emic, M D -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2015 May 29;348(6238):982. doi: 10.1126/science.1260061.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Anatomical Sciences, Health Sciences Center, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26023130" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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*Body Temperature
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Dinosaurs/*growth & development/*metabolism
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*Energy Metabolism
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
