Hummingbirds rely on both paracellular and carrier-mediated intestinal glucose absorption to fuel high metabolism

Biology Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 131-134

  McWhorter, Todd J ^a   Bakken, Bradley Hartman ^b   Karasov, William H ^a   Martínez Del Rio, Carlos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Digestion; Glucose absorption; Hummingbird; Paracellular intestinal permeability

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

BIRD; METABOLISM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGY; FEEDING; GLUCOSE ABSORPTION; GLUCOSE INTAKE; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; MALE; METABOLIC RATE; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT CONTENT; PERMEABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALIA; ANNA; AVES; CALYPTE ANNA; SELASPHORUS RUFUS; TROCHILIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33644880804     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2005.0388     Document Type: Article

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