Integrated postprandial responses of the diamondback water snake, nerodia rhombifer

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 618-631

  Cox, Christian L ^a   Secor, Stephen M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEPSIN A; TRYPSIN;

ADAPTATION; BIOENERGETICS; BODY MASS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEEDING; FOOD CONSUMPTION; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; INGESTION RATE; METABOLISM; MORPHOLOGY; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PH; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PROTEIN; SNAKE; TELEOST;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CALORIMETRY; CYTOCHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENZYMOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; INTESTINE MUCOSA; METABOLISM; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTPRANDIAL STATE; SNAKE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; COLUBRIDAE;

ANIMALS; CALORIMETRY, INDIRECT; COLUBRIDAE; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PEPSIN A; POSTPRANDIAL PERIOD; TRYPSIN;

NERODIA; NERODIA RHOMBIFER; PYTHONIDAE; SERPENTES;

EID: 77955672820     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/648737     Document Type: Article

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