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  1. Automated tracking of wild hummingbird mass and energetics over multiple time scales using radio frequency identification (RFID) technology

    Article • Journal of Avian Biology, September 2014, Wiley

    Dr Kenneth C Welch

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

    Article • Journal of Comparative Physiology B, July 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Kenneth C Welch

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

    Article • AJP Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology, March 2014, American Physiological Society

    Dr Kenneth C Welch

  4. Hummingbirds can fuel expensive hovering flight completely with either exogenous glucose or fructose

    Article • Functional Ecology, November 2013, Wiley

    Dr Kenneth C Welch

  5. Glucose Transporter Expression in an Avian Nectarivore: The Ruby-Throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris)

    Article • PLoS ONE, October 2013, PLOS

    Dr Kenneth C Welch

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

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, April 2013, The Company of Biologists

    Dr Kenneth C Welch

  7. Oxidation of dietary sugar during hovering flight in small vertebrate nectarivores

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, September 2011, The Company of Biologists

    Dr Kenneth C Welch

  8. Hummingbirds Fuel Hovering Flight with Newly Ingested Sugar

    Article • Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, September 2011, University of Chicago Press

    Dr Kenneth C Welch

  9. Digestive performance in neonatal Southern Pacific Rattlesnakes ( Crotalus oreganus helleri )

    Article • Canadian Journal of Zoology, August 2011, Canadian Science Publishing

    Dr Kenneth C Welch

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

    Article • Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A Molecular & Integrative Physiology, March 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Kenneth C Welch

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

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, December 2010, The Company of Biologists

    Dr Kenneth C Welch

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

    Article • Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A Molecular & Integrative Physiology, June 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Kenneth C Welch

  13. Fiber type homogeneity of the flight musculature in small birds

    Article • Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part B Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, April 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Kenneth C Welch

  14. Extremely Low Maximal Force-Generating Ability in Hummingbird Flight Muscle Fibers

    Article • Biophysical Journal, February 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Kenneth C Welch

  15. Stoking the Brightest Fires of Life Among Vertebrates

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Kenneth C Welch

  16. Generation of muscle power during hovering flight in hummingbirds: A comparison of aerodynamic models with measurements of metabolic input and mechanical power output

    Article • Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A Molecular & Integrative Physiology, July 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Kenneth C Welch

  17. Altitude and temperature effects on the energetic cost of hover-feeding in migratory rufous hummingbirds, Selasphorus rufus

    Article • Canadian Journal of Zoology, March 2008, Canadian Science Publishing

    Dr Kenneth C Welch

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

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, February 2008, The Company of Biologists

    Dr Kenneth C Welch

  19. 13.5. Dietary sugar fuels flight in nectarivorous bats

    Article • Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A Molecular & Integrative Physiology, August 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Kenneth C Welch

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

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, June 2007, The Company of Biologists

    Dr Kenneth C Welch

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

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, June 2007, The Company of Biologists

    Dr Kenneth C Welch

  22. Hummingbirds Fuel Hovering Flight with Newly Ingested Sugar

    Article • Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, November 2006, University of Chicago Press

    Dr Kenneth C Welch

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

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, September 2005, The Company of Biologists

    Dr Kenneth C Welch

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

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, September 2005, The Company of Biologists

    Dr Kenneth C Welch

  25. A Comparison of Home Ranges of Two Species of Peromyscus Using Trapping and Radiotelemetry Data

    Article • Journal of Mammalogy, February 2002, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Kenneth C Welch

  26. A COMPARISON OF HOME RANGES OF TWO SPECIES OF PEROMYSCUS USING TRAPPING AND RADIOTELEMETRY DATA

    Article • Journal of Mammalogy, February 2002, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Kenneth C Welch

  27. 763 The identification of a new murine eosinophil major basic protein (mMBP) gene: Cloning and characterization of mMBP-2

    Article • Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, January 2000, Elsevier

    Dr Kenneth C Welch