Retention time of digesta in insectivorous lizards - A comparison of methods and species

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 89-92

  Hatch, Kent A ^a   Afik, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cnemidophorus sexlineatus; Digesta; Digestion; Lizard; Phase separation; Six lined racerunner; TMRT; Total mean retention time; Transit time

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION; DIGESTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTESTINE TRANSIT TIME; LIZARD; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PHASE SEPARATION;

ASPIDOSCELIS SEXLINEATA; AVES; CNEMIDOPHORUS; CNEMIDOPHORUS SEXLINEATUS; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 0032845844     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(99)00094-X     Document Type: Article

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