Bioenergetics and intestinal phenotypic flexibility in the microbiotherid marsupial (Dromiciops gliroides) from the temperate forest in South America

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 160, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 117-124

  Cortés, Pablo A ^a   Franco, Marcela ^a   Sabat, Pablo ^b   Quijano, Silvia A ^c   Nespolo, Roberto F ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Adaptive phenotypic plasticity; Energy metabolism; Frugivory; Intestinal enzymes; Microbiotheria; Monito del monte; Organ size

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GLUCOSIDASE; INTESTINE ENZYME; MICROSOMAL AMINOPEPTIDASE; SUCRASE; TREHALASE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTICLE; BIOENERGY; BODY MASS; DIET; DIGESTIVE FUNCTION; DROMICIOPS GLIROIDES; ENERGY BALANCE; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENZYME ASSAY; FRUGIVORY; FRUIT; INSECT; INTESTINAL PHENOTYPIC FLEXIBILITY; INTESTINE; MARSUPIAL; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHENOTYPE; REST; SOUTH AMERICA;

DROMICIOPS GLIROIDES; HEXAPODA; METATHERIA; MICROBIOTHERIA;

EID: 79960697824     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2011.05.014     Document Type: Article

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