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Comparative Physiology of Fasting, Starvation, and Food Limitation

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 An Introduction to Fasting, Starvation, and Food Limitation
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    Chapter 2 A History of Modern Research into Fasting, Starvation, and Inanition
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    Chapter 3 Starvation in Rotifers: Physiology in an Ecological Context
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    Chapter 4 Drosophila as a Model for Starvation: Evolution, Physiology, and Genetics
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    Chapter 5 Metabolic Transitions During Feast and Famine in Spiders
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    Chapter 6 Adaptation of the Physiological, Endocrine, and Digestive System Functions to Prolonged Food Deprivation in Fish
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    Chapter 7 Starvation in Subterranean Species Versus Surface-Dwelling Species: Crustaceans, Fish, and Salamanders
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    Chapter 8 Physiological Responses to Starvation in Snakes: Low Energy Specialists
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    Chapter 9 Cardiovascular Circuits and Digestive Function of Intermittent-Feeding Sauropsids
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    Chapter 10 Thermoregulatory Adaptations to Starvation in Birds
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    Chapter 11 Fasting in Birds: General Patterns and the Special Case of Endurance Flight
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    Chapter 12 Tissue-Specific Mass Changes During Fasting: The Protein Turnover Hypothesis
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    Chapter 13 Seasonal Changes in Body Mass and Energy Balance in Wild Small Mammals
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    Chapter 14 Changes in Form and Function of the Gastrointestinal Tract During Starvation: From Pythons to Rats
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    Chapter 15 Comparative Physiology of Fasting, Starvation, and Food Limitation
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    Chapter 16 Physiological Responses to Fasting in Bats
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    Chapter 17 Muscle Protein and Strength Retention by Bears During Winter Fasting and Starvation
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    Chapter 18 Seasonal Starvation in Northern White-Tailed Deer
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    Chapter 19 Fasting Physiology of the Pinnipeds: The Challenges of Fasting While Maintaining High Energy Expenditure and Nutrient Delivery for Lactation
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    Chapter 20 The Use and Application of Stable Isotope Analysis to the Study of Starvation, Fasting, and Nutritional Stress in Animals
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    Chapter 21 Fearing the Danger Point: The Study and Treatment of Human Starvation in the United Kingdom and India, c. 1880–1974
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    Chapter 22 Quantitative Physiology of Human Starvation: Adaptations of Energy Expenditure, Macronutrient Metabolism and Body Composition
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    Chapter 23 Alternate Day Fasting: Effects on Body Weight and Chronic Disease Risk in Humans and Animals
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    Chapter 24 Horizons in Starvation Research
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Chapter title
Physiological Responses to Fasting in Bats
Chapter number 16
Book title
Comparative Physiology of Fasting, Starvation, and Food Limitation
Published by
Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, January 2012
DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-29056-5_16
Book ISBNs
978-3-64-229055-8, 978-3-64-229056-5
Authors

Miriam Ben-Hamo, Agustí Muñoz-Garcia, Berry Pinshow, Ben-Hamo, Miriam, Muñoz-Garcia, Agustí, Pinshow, Berry

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 9 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 2 22%
Professor > Associate Professor 2 22%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 22%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 11%
Student > Master 1 11%
Other 1 11%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 56%
Environmental Science 1 11%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 1 11%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 11%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1 11%
Other 0 0%