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Nonshivering thermogenesis (NST) has long been denied in birds as refered in the works of Steen & Enger (1957), Hart (1962), West (1965), and more recently Saarela & Vakkuri (1982), Rintamaki et al. (1983). NST was regarded as a feature of mammals because of the lack of the thermogenic brown adipose tissue, the most exclusive site of this heat production. A multilocular pink adipose tissue differentiated in response to cold acclimation in young ducklings was found in our laboratory, but its biochemical properties led it rather to a role in substrate supply (Barré et al. 1986a).
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Duchamp, C., Barré, H., Delage, D., Berne, G., Brebion, P., Rouanet, JL. (1989). Nonshivering Thermogenesis in Winter-Acclimatized King Penguin Chicks. In: Bech, C., Reinertsen, R.E. (eds) Physiology of Cold Adaptation in Birds. NATO ASI Series, vol 173. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0031-2_6
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