Digestive and metabolic flexibility allows female degus to cope with lactation costs

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 186-194

  Naya, Daniel E ^a   Ebensperger, Luis A ^a   Sabat, Pablo ^a,b   Bozinovic, Francisco ^a  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOENERGETICS; DIGESTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; LACTATION; METABOLISM; MORPHOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE COST; RODENT; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; DIGESTION; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENZYMOLOGY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HISTOLOGY; LACTATION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; RODENT; STOMACH JUICE;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; DIGESTION; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL CONTENTS; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; LACTATION; RODENTIA;

ANIMALIA; CAVIOMORPHA; MAMMALIA; MUS; OCTODON; OCTODON DEGUS; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 39449111891     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/527453     Document Type: Article

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