The allometry of rodent intestines

Journal of Comparative Physiology B: Biochemical, Systemic, and Environmental Physiology

Volumn 180, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 741-755

  Lovegrove, Barry G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Allometry; Arvicolidae; Caecum; Intestines; Rodents

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; BODY WEIGHT; CECUM; CLIMATE; COLON; EVOLUTION; HISTOLOGY; INTESTINE; LARGE INTESTINE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; RODENT; SMALL INTESTINE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CECUM; CLIMATE; COLON; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION; INTESTINE, LARGE; INTESTINE, SMALL; INTESTINES; PHYLOGENY; RODENTIA;

ARVICOLINAE; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 77952530971     PISSN: 01741578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00360-009-0437-2     Document Type: Article

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