The effects of fasting duration on the metabolic response to feeding in Python molurus: An evaluation of the energetic costs associated with gastrointestinal growth and upregulation

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 360-368

  Overgaard, Johannes ^a   Andersen, Johnnie B ^a   Wang, Tobias ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; OXYGEN; URIC ACID;

METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SNAKE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DIET RESTRICTION; DIGESTION; DIGESTIVE FUNCTION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; EATING; ENERGY METABOLISM; METABOLISM; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SNAKE; TIME;

ANIMALS; BOIDAE; CARBON DIOXIDE; DIGESTION; DIGESTIVE PHYSIOLOGY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; EATING; ENERGY METABOLISM; FASTING; OXYGEN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; TIME FACTORS; URIC ACID;

ANIMALIA; PYTHON MOLURUS; PYTHONIDAE; SERPENTES;

EID: 0036660028     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/342769     Document Type: Article

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