Demonstrating coprophagy with passage markers? The example of the plains viscacha (Lagostomus maximus)

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 147, Issue 2 SPEC. ISS., 2007, Pages 453-459

  Clauss, Marcus ^a   Besselmann, Dorothea ^a   Schwarm, Angela ^b   Ortmann, Sylvia ^b   Hatt, Jean Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Caecotrophy; Caecum fermenter; Digestive physiology; Excretion pattern; Hindgut fermenter; Rodent

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; CHINCHILLA; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPROPHAGY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEEDING; INCIDENCE; LAGOSTOMUS MAXIMUS; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALIA; LAGOSTOMUS MAXIMUS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 34247272568     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2007.01.013     Document Type: Article

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