Contrasting digestive strategies in four New Zealand herbivorous fishes as reflected by carbohydrase activity profiles

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 146, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 63-70

  Skea, G L ^a   Mountfort, D O ^b   Clements, K D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b CAWTHRON INSTITUTE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Algae; Aplodactylus etheridgii; Carbohydrase; Carrageenase; Digestive enzyme; Girella cyanea; Girella tricuspidata; Herbivorous fish; Parma alboscapularis

Indexed keywords

AGAROSE; CARBOHYDRATE; CARBOXYMETHYLCELLULOSE; CARRAGEENAN; STARCH; SUGAR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ENZYMATIC DEGRADATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FERMENTATION; FISH; HYDROLYSIS; INTESTINE FLUID; INTESTINE WALL; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MIDGUT; NONHUMAN;

ALGAE; APLODACTYLIDAE; APLODACTYLUS ETHERIDGII; GIRELLA CYANEA; GIRELLA TRICUSPIDATA; KYPHOSIDAE; PARMA ALBOSCAPULARIS; PISCES; POMACENTRIDAE;

EID: 33846612019     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2006.09.006     Document Type: Article

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