Are levels of digestive enzyme activity related to the natural diet in passerine birds?

Biological Research

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 81-88

  Ramírez Otárola, Natalia ^a   Sabat, Pablo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Birds; Diet; Food habits; Intestinal enzymes; Passeriformes

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GLUCOSIDASE; DISACCHARIDASE; EXOPEPTIDASE; SUCRASE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHILE; DIET; DIGESTION; ENZYMOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INTESTINE; METABOLISM; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SONGBIRD; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ALPHA-GLUCOSIDASES; ANIMALS; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILE; DIET; DIGESTION; DISACCHARIDASES; EXOPEPTIDASES; FOOD HABITS; INTESTINES; PASSERIFORMES; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUCRASE;

AVES; PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 79958006585     PISSN: 07169760     EISSN: 07176287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4067/S0716-97602011000100011     Document Type: Article

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