Tissue Damage Precludes the Use of the Everted Sleeve Technique to Measure Nutrient Uptake in a Small Migratory Shorebird, the Western Sandpiper (Calidris mauri)

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 762-770

  Stein, R Will ^a   Williams, Tony D ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; PROLINE;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BIRD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM EXAMINATION; HISTOLOGY; INJURY; MICROVILLUS; MORPHOMETRICS; NOTE; PHYSIOLOGY; SMALL INTESTINE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; BIRDS; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; HISTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; INTESTINE, SMALL; MICROVILLI; PROLINE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CALIDRIS; CALIDRIS MAURI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0347566228     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/376426     Document Type: Note

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