Rheological properties of digesta suggest little radial or axial mixing in the forestomach of the tammar (Macropus eugenii) and the parma (Macropus parma) wallaby

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 572-582

  Lentle, Roger G ^a   Stafford, Kevin J ^a   Kennedy, Malcolm S ^b   Haslett, Steven J ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

DIGESTION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DIGESTIVE FUNCTION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; FEMALE; FLOW KINETICS; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MARSUPIAL; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STOMACH JUICE; VISCOSITY;

ANIMALS; DIGESTIVE PHYSIOLOGY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL CONTENTS; MALE; MARSUPIALIA; RHEOLOGY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VISCOSITY; WATER;

ANIMALIA; LOLIUM; MACROPODIDAE; MACROPUS; MACROPUS EUGENII; MACROPUS PARMA; METATHERIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036872296     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/345484     Document Type: Article

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