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SUBMITTER: Cooper CE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5719383 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cooper Christine Elizabeth CE Withers Philip Carew PC
Biology letters 20171101 11
'Insensible' evaporative water loss of mammals has been traditionally viewed as a passive process, but recent studies suggest that insensible water loss is under regulatory control, although the physiological role of this control is unclear. We test the hypothesis that regulation of insensible water loss has a thermoregulatory function by quantifying for the first time evaporative water loss control, along with metabolic rate and body temperature, of a heterothermic mammal during normothermia an ...[more]