Dietary modulation of intestinal enzymes of the house sparrow (Passer domesticus): Testing an adaptive hypothesis

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 11-24

  Caviedes Vidal, Enrique ^a   Afik, Daniel ^b   Martinez Del Rio, Carlos ^c   Karasov, William H ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN LUIS   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aminopeptidase N; Birds; Digestion; Disaccharidases; Isomaltase; Maltase; Sucrase

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GLUCOSIDASE; CARBOHYDRASE; CARBOHYDRATE; DISACCHARIDASE; INTESTINE ENZYME; LIPID; MICROSOMAL AMINOPEPTIDASE; OLIGO 1,6 GLUCOSIDASE; PEPTIDASE; PROTEIN; STARCH; SUCRASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; CARBOHYDRATE DIET; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HYPOTHESIS; INSECTIVORE; LIPID DIET; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN DIET; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AVES; GALLIFORMES; PASSER DOMESTICUS; PASSERIDAE; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 0034036847     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(99)00163-4     Document Type: Article

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