Symbiotic fermentation, digesta passage, and gastrointestinal morphology in bullfrog tadpoles (Rana catesbeiana)

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 201-215

  Pryor, Gregory S ^a   Bjorndal, Karen A ^a  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERMENTATION; FROG; HERBIVORE; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COPROPHAGY; DIGESTION; FERMENTATION; FROG; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HISTOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STOMACH JUICE; SYMBIOSIS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; COPROPHAGIA; DIGESTION; FERMENTATION; GASTROINTESTINAL CONTENTS; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; LINEAR MODELS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; RANA CATESBEIANA; SYMBIOSIS;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; RANA CATESBEIANA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 16244422667     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/427050     Document Type: Article

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