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Homeothermy
Rabu, 2026-04-29 01:25:09the ocean surface are particularly stable in temperature. Because many homeothermic animals use enzymes that are specialized for a narrow range of body temperatures...
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Minggu, 2026-05-24 06:33:31a temperature higher than that of their environment. In particular, homeothermic species (including birds and mammals) maintain a stable body temperature...
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Rabu, 2026-02-04 04:15:29than homeothermic animals. This is reflected in the predator-prey ratio which is usually higher in poikilothermic fauna compared to homeothermic ones...
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Rabu, 2026-04-08 10:38:07specifically, it states that the body surface-area-to-volume ratio for homeothermic animals varies with the average temperature of the habitat to which they...
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Sabtu, 2026-02-21 09:33:10typical of regions of the abyssal ocean and hence can be regarded as homeothermic ectotherms. In contrast, in places where temperature varies so widely...
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Selasa, 2026-06-02 04:10:03hummingbirds. Hummingbirds have the highest mass-specific metabolic rate of any homeothermic animal. To conserve energy when food is scarce and at night when not...
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Senin, 2026-06-01 06:38:00study of mammals – a class of vertebrates with characteristics such as homeothermic metabolism, fur, mammary glands, four-chambered hearts, and complex nervous...
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Jumat, 2026-05-29 12:07:42Lamnidae (such as the shortfin mako shark and the great white shark) are homeothermic and maintain a higher body temperature than the surrounding water. In...
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Senin, 2026-02-23 02:37:37Tyrannotitan and Carcharodontosaurus. Giganotosaurus is thought to have been homeothermic (a type of "warm-bloodedness"), with a metabolism between that of a mammal...
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Minggu, 2025-09-14 10:12:51osmoreceptor is a sensory receptor primarily found in the hypothalamus of most homeothermic organisms that detects changes in osmotic pressure. Osmoreceptors can...
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Sabtu, 2026-05-30 07:01:37The air-trapping property is also the insulation principle employed by homeothermic animals to stay warm, for example down feathers, and insulating hair...
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Rabu, 2026-03-04 03:23:23through thermogenesis. Thermoregulation is an important component of a homeothermic animal's resting metabolic rate (RMR) and serves to defend body temperature...
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Minggu, 2026-05-17 17:00:14had a furry covering. An insulative covering is necessary to keep a homeothermic animal warm if it is very small, less than 5 cm (1.97 in) long; the 3...
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Minggu, 2026-05-24 06:33:31larger dinosaurs would have been gigantothermic, rendering them virtually homeothermic. Gigantothermy allows animals to maintain body temperature, but is most...
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Senin, 2026-06-01 20:05:30air and absorb it for reuse. As with other ratites, the emu has great homeothermic ability, and can maintain this status from −5 to 45 °C (23 to 113 °F)...
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Kamis, 2026-05-14 19:56:00ambient temperature switches from a typical poikilothermic pattern to a homeothermic mode when temperature is at 29 °C (84 °F) or higher. At lower temperatures...
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Kamis, 2025-09-25 00:06:42over a period of 12 to 14 days, by which point they are feathered and homeothermic. The female feeds the chicks from 1 to 3 times every hour by regurgitation...
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Minggu, 2026-06-07 00:46:23organism's deep-body temperature is. Most endothermic organisms are homeothermic, like mammals. However, animals with facultative endothermy are often...
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Rabu, 2026-02-04 06:50:07as well as ectothermic vertebrates. For example, the study found that homeothermic vertebrates such as the elephantnose fish Gnathonemus petersii have a...
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Kamis, 2025-09-11 04:33:47heat production is equal to the rate of heat loss to the environment. Homeothermic organisms adjust to the temperatures within the TNZ through different...
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Minggu, 2026-05-24 06:33:31Heterothermic animals are those that can switch between poikilothermic and homeothermic strategies. These changes in strategies typically occur on a daily basis...
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Sabtu, 2026-05-16 17:06:40resting heart rate has emerged as a new risk factor for mortality in homeothermic mammals, particularly cardiovascular mortality in human beings. High...
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Jumat, 2026-06-05 15:55:51Dimetrodon enabled it to be homeothermic, maintaining a constant, albeit low, body temperature. Mammals are also homeothermic, although they differ from...
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Kamis, 2025-11-13 21:11:49is variable and dependent on ambient temperature) as opposed to being homeothermic (animals that maintain a stable internal body temperature regardless...
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Selasa, 2026-05-19 07:11:46the aggregate assumes stable temperature properties reminiscent of a homeothermic organism (i.e., maintains tight temperature tolerance ± 2 °C). An adult...
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Senin, 2026-05-25 20:59:17opportunity arose; the cimicids could make use of the large size and homeothermic properties of a human, which provided an abundant food supply that led...
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Minggu, 2026-05-24 06:33:31maintain high metabolic activity for as long as endotherms. Endothermic/homeothermic animals can be optimally active at more times during the diurnal cycle...
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Senin, 2026-05-25 08:00:20consistency to the ostrich's nitrogenous waste. Common ostriches are homeothermic endotherms; they regulate a constant body temperature via regulating...
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Minggu, 2026-05-24 16:36:12exclusively on blood. The infrared sense enables Desmodus to localize homeothermic (warm-blooded) animals (cattle, horses, wild mammals) within a range...
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Senin, 2026-04-20 02:17:24proboscis in this genus. Like other sauropods, Brachiosaurus was probably homeothermic (maintaining a stable internal temperature) and endothermic (controlling...
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Minggu, 2026-06-07 13:04:31study of mammals, a class of vertebrates with characteristics such as homeothermic metabolism, fur, four-chambered hearts, and complex nervous systems....
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Kamis, 2025-09-18 17:37:13of the uncultured Bacteroidales family S24-7 inhabiting the guts of homeothermic animals". Microbiome. 4 (1): 36. doi:10.1186/s40168-016-0181-2. PMC 4936053...
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Kamis, 2025-10-09 12:55:48of the uncultured Bacteroidales family S24-7 inhabiting the guts of homeothermic animals". Microbiome. 4 (1): 36. doi:10.1186/s40168-016-0181-2. PMC 4936053...
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Sabtu, 2025-12-06 23:48:53Arctic latitudes, and that the rule was "only applicable to a subset of homeothermic animals" with regard to temperature when all other climatic variables...
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Minggu, 2026-06-07 05:06:43eventually leading to the death of the animal. It has also been shown that homeothermic animals might require sleep to maintain body weight and temperature.[citation...
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Sabtu, 2026-05-16 02:08:12system using infrared-sensitive receptors on their nose-leaf to prey on homeothermic (warm-blooded) vertebrates. Trigeminal nerve fibers that innervate these...
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Senin, 2026-05-11 04:43:02seawater. A 2025 isotopes of oxygen ratio suggested that ichthyosaurs were homeothermic endotherms, having a body temperature of 31–41 °C (88–106 °F). Blubber...
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Kamis, 2025-11-27 13:42:12determined to be homeothermic. This 36-day mark is conveniently the age at which offspring leave their burrows. Individuals remained homeothermic in response...
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Minggu, 2026-04-26 22:07:31("cold-blooded") or endotherms ("warm-blooded"). Mammals and birds are homeothermic endotherms, which generate their own body heat and have a high metabolism...
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Kamis, 2026-04-09 15:47:28that V(D)J recombination is observed in all vertebrates, GC appeared in homeothermic animals. Under evolutionary new conditions, when elevated body temperature...
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Sabtu, 2026-06-06 05:35:32has little variation in seasonal temperature changes. However, as a homeothermic endotherm it is still faced with the challenge of maintaining a constant...
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Minggu, 2026-06-07 00:41:44feed exclusively on blood. The IR sense enables Desmodus to localize homeothermic animals such as cattle and horses within a range of about 10 to 15 cm...
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Rabu, 2025-11-19 01:57:14that practice truly aquatic respiration are poikilothermic. All aquatic homeothermic animals and birds including cetaceans and penguins are air breathing...
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Senin, 2026-05-18 19:36:52Schistosomatidae differ from other blood flukes in having separate sexes and homeothermic hosts. They have compensated for the reduction in potential reproductive...
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Sabtu, 2026-05-16 23:44:57temperature; efficiency drops rapidly outside the preferred range. A homeothermic organism needs only to possess enzymes that function well in a small...
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Minggu, 2026-06-07 13:32:42study of mammals, a class of vertebrates with characteristics such as homeothermic metabolism, fur, four-chambered hearts, and complex nervous systems....
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Sabtu, 2026-05-23 08:52:57variety of subjects such as neurochemistry, digestion, thermoregulation in homeothermic animals, and breathing. In 1898, he became a member of the Académie de...
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Jumat, 2026-06-05 07:05:26eutherocephalians and cynodonts were evolving toward a more active, homeothermic lifestyle, though the eye never fully disappeared in the eutherocephalians...
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Minggu, 2026-01-18 13:39:38given live birth, and the fact that they had hair indicates they were homeothermic ("warmblooded"). Multituberculates would have been omnivorous; Catopsbaatar...
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Sabtu, 2026-01-31 20:35:03which are born more or less with their eyes open, covered in down, homeothermic, able to leave the nest and ambulate and to participate in foraging....
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Minggu, 2026-05-17 18:29:18studies mammals, a class of vertebrates with characteristics such as homeothermic metabolism, fur, four-chambered hearts, and complex nervous systems....
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Senin, 2025-09-29 19:32:44hibernation, and body temperature increases during the summer. They are also homeothermic endotherms due to the relative stability of their body temperatures during...
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Kamis, 2026-05-21 20:52:32of the uncultured Bacteroidales family S24-7 inhabiting the guts of homeothermic animals". Microbiome. 4 (1): 36. doi:10.1186/s40168-016-0181-2. PMC 4936053...
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Kamis, 2026-05-21 18:57:37of the uncultured Bacteroidales family S24-7 inhabiting the guts of homeothermic animals". Microbiome. 4 (1): 36. doi:10.1186/s40168-016-0181-2. PMC 4936053...
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Sabtu, 2025-10-04 16:24:11having had blubber, which indicates that other ichthyosaurs and it were homeothermic ("warm blooded"). The same specimen also suggests that ichthyosaurs would...
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Minggu, 2026-04-26 01:06:17("cold-blooded") or endotherms ("warm-blooded"). Mammals and birds are homeothermic endotherms, which generate their own body heat and have a high metabolism...
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Minggu, 2025-11-30 09:44:30for the first few days while fed by the male, and when the young are homeothermic (have a stable body temperature), both take care of and feed the nestlings...
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Senin, 2026-03-02 12:16:00PMC 1450560. PMID 13498651. It is evident that a number of homeothermic animals, including man, can tolerate cooling to body temperatures near...
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Kamis, 2026-03-05 11:50:32suggests that body temperature rhythms, as controlled by the SCN in homeothermic mammals, is a potential mechanism through which the master clock may...
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Sabtu, 2026-04-25 04:43:06stable an organism's temperature is. Most endothermic organisms are homeothermic, like mammals. However, animals with facultative endothermy are often...
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Sabtu, 2026-01-03 07:20:10fresh water or food would prove difficult for a large, warm-blooded (homeothermic) mammal, but today many small, nocturnal species of lemur exhibit heterothermy...
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Sabtu, 2026-04-11 01:43:55richness with latitude) is not influenced by dispersal, animal physiology (homeothermic or ectothermic) trophic level, hemisphere, or the latitudinal range of...
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Selasa, 2025-11-18 00:25:20also indicate that ceratopsians had an elevated metabolism and were homeothermic endotherms (or "warm-blooded"), like modern birds and mammals. The Kosmoceratops...
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Sabtu, 2026-05-30 20:30:31byproduct of metabolism and a function in maintaining body temperature in homeothermic animals. The same account described his work on the relation between...
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Jumat, 2026-04-03 17:52:55hillstar has one of the highest mass-specific metabolic rates of all homeothermic animals, and therefore must consume a large quantity of sugar everyday...
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