Digestive plasticity of the small intestine and the fermentative hindgut in a marsupial herbivore, the tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii)

Australian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 287-291

  Munn, Adam J ^a   Banks, Peter ^b   Hume, Ian D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIETARY SHIFT; FORAGE; HERBIVORE; MARSUPIAL; MORPHOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE;

ANIMALIA; MACROPODIDAE; MACROPUS EUGENII; METATHERIA;

EID: 33747088160     PISSN: 0004959X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/ZO06004     Document Type: Article

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