Modelling digestive constraints in non-ruminant and ruminant foregut-fermenting mammals

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 78-84

  Munn, Adam J ^a   Streich, W Jürgen ^b   Hummel, Jürgen ^c   Clauss, Marcus ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^d VETSUISSE FACULTY UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Foregut; Herbivore; Hindgut; Kangaroos; Marsupials; Non ruminant; Nutrition; Ruminant

Indexed keywords

CELLULOSE; HEMICELLULOSE; LIGNIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CALORIC INTAKE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTIVE FUNCTION; ENERGY METABOLISM; FERMENTATION; FOOD INTAKE; FORAGE; HERBIVORE; KANGAROO; MARSUPIAL; NEUTRAL DETERGENT FIBER; NONHUMAN; SHEEP;

ANIMALIA; EUTHERIA; MACROPODIDAE; MACROPUS RUFUS; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 47949099850     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2008.06.001     Document Type: Article

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