Accepted Manuscript Bio-thermal responses and heat balance of a hair coat sheep breed raised under an equatorial semi-arid environment Vinicius de França Carvalho Fonsêca, Alex Sandro Campos Maia, Edilson Paes Saraiva, Cintia Carol de Melo Costa, Roberto Gomes da Silva, Khalid Ahmed Abdoun, Ahmed Abrahim Al-Haidary, Emad Mohammed Samara, Andrea Fuller PII: S0306-4565(19)30033-6 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtherbio.2019.05.024 Reference: TB 2342 To appear in: Journal of Thermal Biology Received Date: 18 January 2019 Revised Date: 21 May 2019 Accepted Date: 22 May 2019 Please cite this article as: de França Carvalho Fonsêca, V., Maia, A.S.C., Saraiva, E.P., de Melo Costa, C.C., da Silva, R.G., Abdoun, K.A., Al-Haidary, A.A., Samara, E.M., Fuller, A., Bio-thermal responses and heat balance of a hair coat sheep breed raised under an equatorial semi-arid environment, Journal of Thermal Biology (2019), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtherbio.2019.05.024. This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain.