Editorial: The Evolution of Endothermy-From Patterns to Mechanisms

Elias T Polymeropoulos¹, Rebecca Oelkrug², Martin Jastroch^{3

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Affiliations

¹ Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia.
² Department of Internal Medicine I, Group of Molecular Endocrinology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany.
³ Institute for Diabetes and Obesity, Helmholtz Zentrum, Munich, Germany.
⁴ The Arrhenius Laboratories F3, Department of Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.

Editorial

Elias T Polymeropoulos et al. Front Physiol. 2018.

. 2018 Jul 12:9:891.

doi: 10.3389/fphys.2018.00891. eCollection 2018.

Elias T Polymeropoulos¹, Rebecca Oelkrug², Martin Jastroch^{3

4}

¹ Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia.
² Department of Internal Medicine I, Group of Molecular Endocrinology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany.
³ Institute for Diabetes and Obesity, Helmholtz Zentrum, Munich, Germany.
⁴ The Arrhenius Laboratories F3, Department of Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.

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Keywords: comparative physiology; ectotherms; endotherms; evolution; heterothermy; thermoregulation.

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Editorial on the Research Topic The Evolution of Endothermy–From Patterns to Mechanisms

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