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List of works by Kenneth C Welch

(13)C-Breath testing in animals: theory, applications, and future directions.

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Allometric scaling of flight energetics in Panamanian orchid bees: a comparative phylogenetic approach.

scientific article published on September 2005

Carbon stable-isotope tracking in breath for comparative studies of fuel use.

scientific article published on 27 March 2015

Dietary sugar as a direct fuel for flight in the nectarivorous bat Glossophaga soricina

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Energy metabolism in orchid bee flight muscles: carbohydrate fuels all.

scientific article published in September 2005

Fiber type homogeneity of the flight musculature in small birds

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Flight muscle enzymes and metabolic flux rates during hovering flight of the nectar bat, Glossophaga soricina: further evidence of convergence with hummingbirds.

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Glucose transporter expression in an avian nectarivore: the ruby-throated hummingbird (Archilochus colubris)

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Hummingbirds fuel hovering flight with newly ingested sugar

scientific article published on 2 October 2006

Maternal predator odour exposure programs metabolic responses in adult offspring.

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Metabolic partitioning of sucrose and seasonal changes in fat turnover rate in ruby-throated hummingbirds (Archilochus colubris)

scientific article published on 27 January 2020

Myosin heavy-chain isoforms in the flight and leg muscles of hummingbirds and zebra finches.

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Neuromuscular control of hovering wingbeat kinematics in response to distinct flight challenges in the ruby-throated hummingbird, Archilochus colubris.

scientific article published on 15 August 2013

Neuromuscular control of wingbeat kinematics in Anna's hummingbirds (Calypte anna).

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Oxidation rate and turnover of ingested sugar in hovering Anna's (Calypte anna) and rufous (Selasphorus rufus) hummingbirds

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Oxygen consumption rates in hovering hummingbirds reflect substrate-dependent differences in P/O ratios: carbohydrate as a 'premium fuel'.

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Single-molecule, full-length transcript sequencing provides insight into the extreme metabolism of the ruby-throated hummingbird Archilochus colubris.

scientific article published in March 2018

Sugar Metabolism in Hummingbirds and Nectar Bats

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Sugar flux through the flight muscles of hovering vertebrate nectarivores: a review

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The Metabolic Flexibility of Hovering Vertebrate Nectarivores.

scientific article published in March 2018

The biomechanical origin of extreme wing allometry in hummingbirds.

scientific article published on 19 October 2017

The cost of digestion in the fish-eating myotis (Myotis vivesi)

scientific article published on 01 April 2015

The power of feeder-mask respirometry as a method for examining hummingbird energetics.

scientific article published on 23 July 2010

The sugar oxidation cascade: aerial refueling in hummingbirds and nectar bats

scientific article published in January 2011

Very low force-generating ability and unusually high temperature dependency in hummingbird flight muscle fibers

scientific article published on 11 April 2013