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INTERRELATIONS OF DAILY METABOLIC CYCLE, ACTIVITY, AND ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE OF MICE |
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Canadian Journal of Research,
Volume 28d,
Issue 6,
1950,
Page 293-307
J. S. Hart,
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The daily metabolic cycle of fully fed, adult white mice, at temperatures from − 8 °C. to 37 °C., averaged 48 ml. of oxygen per mouse per hour between the highest nocturnal and lowest diurnal values, but this value was significantly greater at the higher temperatures. Over the same temperature range, forced activity of mice in a rotating metabolism chamber, up to approximately one-half the maximum running speeds studied, resulted in direct superimposition of work metabolism upon that of rest, with a constant metabolic increment at all temperatures. At the maximum running speeds the metabolism produced by the work decreased with decreasing temperature, with some gain in efficiency. The daily metabolic cycle fell within the activity range in which a given degree of work produced the same increment in oxygen consumption at all temperatures. These studies lead to the hypothesis that, in mice, some of the metabolic components of the daily cycle are additive over the biokinetic range. This results in a very large energy expenditure at low temperatures.
ISSN:1923-4287
DOI:10.1139/cjr50d-020
出版商:NRC Research Press
年代:1950
数据来源: NRC
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PHYSICAL AND BIOLOGICAL INDICATORS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF OUTBREAKS OF THE SPRUCE BUDWORM,CHORISTONEURA FUMIFERANA(CLEM.) (LEPIDOPTERA: TORTRICIDAE) |
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Canadian Journal of Research,
Volume 28d,
Issue 6,
1950,
Page 308-331
W. G. Wellington,
J. J. Fettes,
R. M. Belyea,
K. B. Turner,
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Biological and meteorological records were examined for periods when outbreaks of the spruce budworm,Choristoneura fumiferana(Clem.), were known to have occurred in northeastern North America. The survey showed that the following significant events occurred during the period of three to four years preceding an outbreak. Decreasing annual numbers of low pressure centers passed over the area in which the outbreak later occurred. Therefore, the outbreak began at a time of decreased or minimal storminess. Drought occurred, chiefly in June and July, but also occasionally in spring and autumn. Annual increments of host trees on dry sites declined. Outbreaks of the forest tent caterpillar,Malacosoma disstriaHbn., occurred, particularly in Ontario. These events, in aggregate, occurred so consistently before spruce budworm outbreaks that they have future predictive value. In addition, they reinforce some suggestions made by earlier authors and suggest modifications of hypotheses concerning the behavior of developing populations of the spruce budworm.
ISSN:1923-4287
DOI:10.1139/cjr50d-021
出版商:NRC Research Press
年代:1950
数据来源: NRC
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