Phylogenetic constraints on digesta separation: Variation in fluid throughput in the digestive tract in mammalian herbivores

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 160, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 207-220

  Müller, Dennis W H ^a   Caton, Judith ^b   Codron, Daryl ^a   Schwarm, Angela ^c   Lentle, Roger ^d   Streich, W Jürgen ^e   Hummel, Jürgen ^f   Clauss, Marcus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR FARM ANIMAL BIOLOGY FBN   (Germany)

^d MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

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

^f UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Caecum fermenter; Digestion; Fluid; Foregut fermenter; Hindgut fermenter; Nonruminant; Particle; Passage; Ruminant

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BOVIDS; CECUM FERMENTER; COLON FERMENTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTA WASHING; DIGESTION; FOOD INTAKE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; HERBIVORE; NONHUMAN; NONRUMINANT FOREGUT FERMENTER; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 79960697230     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2011.06.004     Document Type: Article

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