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cold-blooded (of all animals except birds and mammals) having a body temperature that varies with that of the surroundings How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Food web magnification of persistent organic pollutants in poikilotherms and homeotherms from the Barents Sea, Environ. Although our experiments on frogs have all been conducted at room temperature (near the high end of the normal range of temperatures for free-ranging bullfrogs) and we traumatized equally both limbs of each animal and statistically compared treated limbs with untreated limbs, bullfrogs are poikilotherms (cold-blooded) and may therefore respond differently from homeothermic (warm-blooded) mammals to trauma and to treatment. |
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