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SUBMITTER: Umekawa Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4837406 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Umekawa Yui Y Seymour Roger S RS Ito Kikukatsu K
Scientific reports 20160420
Thermoregulation (homeothermy) in animals involves a complex mechanism involving thermal receptors throughout the body and integration in the hypothalamus that controls shivering and non-shivering thermogenesis. The flowers of some ancient families of seed plants show a similar degree of physiological thermoregulation, but by a different mechanism. Here, we show that respiratory control in homeothermic spadices of skunk cabbage (Symplocarpus renifolius) is achieved by rate-determining biochemica ...[more]