Regulation of rumen fermentation during seasonal fluctuations in food intake of muskoxen

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 146, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 233-241

  Crater, Annie R ^a   Barboza, Perry S ^a   Forster, Robert J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b LETHBRIDGE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arctic; Bacteria; Digesta passage; Homeostasis; Hyperphagia; Rumen; Short chain fatty acids; Winter

Indexed keywords

SHORT CHAIN FATTY ACID;

ARTICLE; FERMENTATION; FOOD INTAKE; HERBIVORE; HOMEOSTASIS; HYPERPHAGIA; MEAL; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; OSMOLALITY; PH; RUMINANT STOMACH; SEASONAL VARIATION; TURNOVER TIME; WINTER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); OVIBOS; OVIBOS MOSCHATUS;

EID: 33846585438     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2006.10.019     Document Type: Article

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