Dietary assimilation and the digestive strategy of the omnivorous anomuran land crab Birgus latro (Coenobitidae)

Journal of Comparative Physiology B: Biochemical, Systemic, and Environmental Physiology

Volumn 174, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 299-308

  Wilde, Joanne E ^a   Linton, Stuart M ^a   Greenaway, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Birgus latro; Diet; Dietary assimilation; Digestion; Land crab; Robber crab

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CELLULOSE; CHITIN; COBALT; MICROSPHERE; NITROGEN;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BRACHYURA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIET; DIGESTION; FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD ANALYSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; LIPID METABOLISM; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; ANIMALS; BRACHYURA; CARBON; CELLULOSE; CHITIN; COBALT RADIOISOTOPES; DIET; DIGESTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD ANALYSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; LIPID METABOLISM; MICRONESIA; MICROSPHERES; NITROGEN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 2642581056     PISSN: 01741578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00360-004-0415-7     Document Type: Article

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