Do changes in dietary chemistry during ontogeny affect digestive performance in adults of the herbivorous rodent Octodon degus?

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 151, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 455-460

  Sabat, Pablo ^a,b   Bozinovic, Francisco ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b Center for Advanced Studies in Ecology and Biodiversity   (Chile)

^c PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Dietary habits; Digestive physiology; Octodon degus; Physiological flexibility; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; CELLULOSE; CORN OIL; METHIONINE; PROTEIN; SOYBEAN PROTEIN; STARCH; VITAMIN;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL DIET; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DIET; DIGESTIVE FUNCTION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HERBIVORE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OCTODON DEGUS; ONTOGENY; RAT; RODENT; WEANING;

OCTODON DEGUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 52949083242     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2007.07.009     Document Type: Article

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