Reduced metabolic cost of locomotion in Svalbard rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta hyperborea) during winter.

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Published in PLoS One on November 15, 2010

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John Lees1, Robert Nudds, Karl-Arne Stokkan, Lars Folkow, Jonathan Codd

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1: Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.

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