Thyroid Hormones Correlate with Basal Metabolic Rate but Not Field Metabolic Rate in a Wild Bird Species

• Jorg Welcker ,

  * E-mail: jorg.welcker@npolar.no

  Affiliations Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromsø, Norway, Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, United States of America

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• Olivier Chastel,

  Affiliation Centre d’Etudes Biologiques de Chizé, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Chizé, France

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• Geir W. Gabrielsen,

  Affiliation Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromsø, Norway

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• Jerome Guillaumin,

  Affiliation Centre d’Etudes Biologiques de Chizé, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Chizé, France

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• Alexander S. Kitaysky,

  Affiliation Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, United States of America

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• John R. Speakman,

  Affiliations Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, Peoples Republic of China

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• Yann Tremblay,

  Affiliations Centre d’Etudes Biologiques de Chizé, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Chizé, France, Centre de Recherche Halieutique Méditerranéenne et Tropicale, Sète cedex, France

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• Claus Bech

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

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