| Energy metabolism in orchid bee flight muscles: carbohydrate fuels all RK Suarez, CA Darveau, KC Welch Jr, DM O'Brien, DW Roubik, ... Journal of Experimental Biology 208 (18), 3573-3579, 2005 | 156 | 2005 |
| Allometric scaling of flight energetics in Panamanian orchid bees: a comparative phylogenetic approach CA Darveau, PW Hochachka, KC Welch Jr, DW Roubik, RK Suarez Journal of Experimental Biology 208 (18), 3581-3591, 2005 | 85 | 2005 |
| Fiber type homogeneity of the flight musculature in small birds KC Welch Jr, DL Altshuler Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part B: Biochemistry and Molecular …, 2009 | 81 | 2009 |
| Dietary sugar as a direct fuel for flight in the nectarivorous bat Glossophaga soricina KC Welch Jr, LG Herrera M, RK Suarez Journal of Experimental Biology 211 (3), 310-316, 2008 | 81 | 2008 |
| Hummingbirds fuel hovering flight with newly ingested sugar KC Welch Jr, BH Bakken, C Martínez del Rio, RK Suarez Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 79 (6), 1082-1087, 2006 | 78 | 2006 |
| Single-molecule, full-length transcript sequencing provides insight into the extreme metabolism of the ruby-throated hummingbird Archilochus colubris RE Workman, AM Myrka, GW Wong, E Tseng, KC Welch Jr, W Timp Gigascience 7 (3), giy009, 2018 | 71 | 2018 |
| A Comparison of Home Ranges of two Species of Peromyscus Using Trapping and Radiotelemetry Data DO Ribble, AE Wurtz, EK McConnell, JJ Buegge, KC Welch Jr Journal of Mammalogy 83 (1), 260-266, 2002 | 66 | 2002 |
| Oxygen consumption rates in hovering hummingbirds reflect substrate-dependent differences in P/O ratios: carbohydrate as apremium fuel' KC Welch Jr, DL Altshuler, RK Suarez Journal of Experimental Biology 210 (12), 2146-2153, 2007 | 64 | 2007 |
| Carbon stable‐isotope tracking in breath for comparative studies of fuel use KC Welch Jr, F Péronnet, KA Hatch, CC Voigt, MD McCue Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1365 (1), 15-32, 2016 | 56* | 2016 |
| Oxidation rate and turnover of ingested sugar in hovering Anna's(Calypte anna) and rufous (Selasphorus rufus)hummingbirds KC Welch Jr, RK Suarez Journal of Experimental Biology 210 (12), 2154-2162, 2007 | 53 | 2007 |
| 13C-Breath testing in animals: theory, applications, and future directions MD McCue, KC Welch Journal of Comparative Physiology B 186, 265-285, 2016 | 51 | 2016 |
| Neonicotinoid pesticides exert metabolic effects on avian pollinators SG English, NI Sandoval-Herrera, CA Bishop, M Cartwright, ... Scientific reports 11 (1), 2914, 2021 | 43 | 2021 |
| Metabolic Cost of the Activation of Immune Response in the Fish-Eating Myotis (Myotis vivesi): The Effects of Inflammation and the Acute Phase Response A Otalora-Ardila, LG Herrera M, JJ Flores-Martínez, KC Welch Jr PLoS One 11 (10), e0164938, 2016 | 43 | 2016 |
| Hummingbirds can fuel expensive hovering flight completely with either exogenous glucose or fructose CCW Chen, KC Welch Jr Functional Ecology 28 (3), 589-600, 2014 | 43 | 2014 |
| Neuromuscular control of wingbeat kinematics in Anna's hummingbirds (Calypte anna) DL Altshuler, KC Welch Jr, BH Cho, DB Welch, AF Lin, WB Dickson, ... Journal of Experimental Biology 213 (14), 2507-2514, 2010 | 43 | 2010 |
| Always chew your food: freshwater stingrays use mastication to process tough insect prey MA Kolmann, KC Welch Jr, AP Summers, NR Lovejoy Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 283 (1838), 20161392, 2016 | 40 | 2016 |
| Automated tracking of wild hummingbird mass and energetics over multiple time scales using radio frequency identification (RFID) technology L Hou, M Verdirame, KC Welch Jr Journal of Avian Biology 46 (1), 1-8, 2015 | 40 | 2015 |
| The sugar oxidation cascade: aerial refueling in hummingbirds and nectar bats RK Suarez, KC Welch Jr Journal of Experimental Biology 214 (2), 172-178, 2011 | 40 | 2011 |
| Glucose transporter expression in an avian nectarivore: the ruby-throated hummingbird (Archilochus colubris) KC Welch Jr, A Allalou, P Sehgal, J Cheng, A Ashok PLoS One 8 (10), e77003, 2013 | 37 | 2013 |
| Flight muscle enzymes and metabolic flux rates during hovering flight of the nectar bat, Glossophaga soricina: further evidence of convergence with hummingbirds RK Suarez, KC Welch Jr, SK Hanna Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative …, 2009 | 35 | 2009 |
Douglas L. AltshulerProfessor of Zoology, University of British ColumbiaVerified email at ubc.ca
