Shaping up: How vertebrates adjust their digestive system to changing environmental conditions

Animal Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 245-257

  Starck, J Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cell proliferation; Gastrointestinal tract; Hyperplasia; Hypertrophy; Phenotypic flexibility

Indexed keywords

DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; VERTEBRATE;

AVES; MAMMALIA; SAUROPSIDA; SERPENTES; TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 3042699915     PISSN: 15707555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/157075603322539444     Document Type: Article

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