Digestion of chitin by Northern Bobwhites and American robins

Condor

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 554-556

  Weiser, Jennifer I ^a   Porth, Adam ^a   Mertens, David ^b   Karasov, William H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b U S DAIRY FORAGE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

American robin; Arthropod; Chitin; Cuticle; Fat digestibility; Insectivore; Metabolitability; Northern bobwhite

Indexed keywords

EID: 0344313002     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1369967     Document Type: Article

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