Nutritional responses to different diet quality in the subterranean rodent Ctenomys talarum (tuco-tucos)

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 147, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 974-982

  Martino, Natalia S ^a,b   Zenuto, Roxana R ^a,b   Busch, Cristina ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Coprophagy; Ctenomys talarum; Herbivory; Nutritional physiology; Subterranean rodent

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPROPHAGY; CTENOMYS TALARUM; DIET; FOOD INTAKE; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; RODENT;

ANIMALIA; CTENOMYIDAE; CTENOMYS TALARUM; RODENTIA;

EID: 34249747355     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2007.03.003     Document Type: Article

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