Digestive enzymes in two species of marine Cinclodes (Passeriformes: Furnariidae)

Condor

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 830-833

  Sabat, Pablo ^a   Gonzalez, Sandra P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Aminopeptidase N; Cinclodes; Digestion; Disaccharidases; Nutrition

Indexed keywords

AVES; CINCLODES; FURNARIIDAE; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 0242575059     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1650/7191     Document Type: Article

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