Abstract
IN A PREVIOUS study (i), a method employing a modified Warburg respirom' ter for the simultaneous measurement of the oxygen consumption and the carbon dioxide production of the newt, Triturus viridescens Raf., was described. Using this instrument it was found that the temperature charac teristic (µ) for the respiration of normal animals was approximately 17,200. This value was not found to change as a result of gonadectomy, but µ values of 13,800 and 17,200 on either side of approximately 15° C. were found for fall'collected animals which had been kept under laboratory condi' tions without feeding for several weeks. It was concluded that this change was probably due to starvation. The observations reported in the present paper deal principally with the effect of various experimental modifications of the endocrine complex on the temperature'respiration relationship as described by the temperature char' acteristic.
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