Nitrogen requirements and urea recycling in an omnivorous marsupial, the northern brown bandicoot Isoodon macrourus

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 456-467

  Young, Vanessa ^a   Hume, Ian D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; NITROGEN; UREA;

MARSUPIAL; NITROGEN; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FECES; FOOD ANALYSIS; MARSUPIAL; METABOLISM; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL FEED; ANIMAL NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; ANIMALS; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; FECES; FOOD ANALYSIS; LINEAR MODELS; MARSUPIALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES; NITROGEN; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENTS; UREA;

ANIMALIA; EUTHERIA; IPOMOEA BATATAS; ISOODON MACROURUS; MACROURUS; METATHERIA; PERAMELIDAE; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 19944424121     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/430037     Document Type: Article

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