Digestive morphology and enzyme activity in the Andean toad Bufo spinulosus: Hard-wired or flexible physiology?

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 140, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 165-170

  Naya, Daniel E ^a   Farfán, Gonzalo ^b   Sabat, Pablo ^a,b   Méndez, Marco A ^b   Bozinovic, Francisco ^a  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Amphibians; Bufo spinulosus; Digestive enzymes; Digestive theory; Food intake; Food quality; Gastrointestinal tract; Gut size; Phenotypic flexibility

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GLUCOSIDASE; MICROSOMAL AMINOPEPTIDASE;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BUFO SPINULOSUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIET; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FOOD INTAKE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; TOAD; UPREGULATION;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; BUFO SPINULOSUS;

EID: 14644398557     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpb.2004.11.006     Document Type: Article

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