Phenotypic flexibility of digestive morphology and physiology of the South American omnivorous rodent Akodon azarae (Rodentia: Sigmodontinae)

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 139, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 503-512

  Del Valle, Juana C ^a   Mañanes, Alejandra A López ^a,b   Busch, Cristina ^a  

^a Fac Cie Veterinarias Univ N   (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Akodon; Body condition; Maltase; Murid; Phenotypic plasticity; Protease; Rodent; Sucrase

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GLUCOSIDASE; PROTEINASE; SUCRASE; SUCRASE ISOMALTASE; SUCROSE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; BODY COMPOSITION; COLD ACCLIMATIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; INTESTINE ABSORPTION; INTESTINE SECRETION; MALE; METABOLIC RATE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OMNIVORY; PHENOTYPE; RODENT; SMALL INTESTINE;

AKODON; AKODON AZARAE; ANIMALIA; MURIDAE; RODENTIA; SIGMODONTINAE;

EID: 10444263802     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpb.2004.10.013     Document Type: Article

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