Morphological characteristics of blood cells in monitor lizards: is erythrocyte size linked to actual body size?

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-4877.2012.00295.x" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-4877.2012.00295.x</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-4877.2012.00295.x" target="_blank" >10.1111/j.1749-4877.2012.00295.x</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Morphological characteristics of blood cells in monitor lizards: is erythrocyte size linked to actual body size?

Original language description

Blood cell morphology and count are not uniform across species. Recently, between-species comparisons revealed that the size of red blood cells is associated with body size in some lizard taxa, and this finding was interpreted in the context of the metabolic theory. In the present study, we examined the numbers and the size of blood cells in 2 species of monitor lizards, the mangrove-dwelling monitor (Varanus indicus) and the savannah monitor (V. exanthematicus), and we compared these traits in individuals of different body size. The results revealed that during the course of ontogeny, the size of red blood cells increases with body mass. Because the mass-specific metabolic rate decreases with body size and the cell volume-to-surface ratio decreases with the cell size, changes in the erythrocyte size might be the result of oxygen transport adjustment.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

EG - Zoology

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2013

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Integrative Zoology

ISSN

1749-4877

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

8

Issue of the periodical within the volume

neuvedeno

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

39-45

UT code for WoS article

000318287100005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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