Fluid and particle retention in the digestive tract of the addax antelope (Addax nasomaculatus)-Adaptations of a grazing desert ruminant

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 149, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 142-149

  Hummel, Jürgen ^a   Steuer, Patrick ^a   Südekum, Karl Heinz ^a   Hammer, Sven ^b   Hammer, Catrin ^b   Streich, W Jürgen ^c   Clauss, Marcus ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b Al Wabra Wildlife Preservation   (Qatar)

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

^d VETSUISSE FACULTY UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Browser; Digestive physiology; Food intake; Grazer; Ingesta passage; Mean retention time; Selectivity factor

Indexed keywords

ADDAX NASOMACULATUS; ANTELOPE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLUID INTAKE; FLUID RETENTION; FOOD INTAKE; NONHUMAN;

ADDAX; ADDAX NASOMACULATUS; ANIMALIA; BOS; CHLORIS GAYANA; POACEAE;

EID: 38649091354     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2007.11.001     Document Type: Article

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