Fully reversible phenotypic plasticity of digestive physiology in young house sparrows: Lack of long-term effect of early diet composition

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 214, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 2755-2760

  Brzȩk, Paweł ^a   Kohl, Kevin D ^a,d   Caviedes Vidal, Enrique ^a,b,c   Karasov, William H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN LUIS   (Argentina)

^c Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Digestive enzymes; Early nutrition compensation; Ecological physiology; House sparrow; Ontogeny; Phenotypic flexibility

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GLUCOSIDASE; MICROSOMAL AMINOPEPTIDASE; SUCRASE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; DIET; DIGESTIVE FUNCTION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; ENZYMOLOGY; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; ORGAN SIZE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPARROW; TIME;

ALPHA-GLUCOSIDASES; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD13; BODY WEIGHT; DIET; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ORGAN SIZE; PHENOTYPE; SPARROWS; SUCRASE; TIME FACTORS;

AVES; PASSER DOMESTICUS; PASSERIDAE;

EID: 79961084409     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.058727     Document Type: Article

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