Snails can survive passage through a bird's digestive system

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 69-73

  Wada, Shinichiro ^a   Kawakami, Kazuto ^b   Chiba, Satoshi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bird dispersal; Bird predation; Hypsipetes amaurotis; Land snail; Mitochondrial 16S rRNA; Ogasawara; Tornatellides boeningi; Zosterops japonicus

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIRD; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; LINEARITY; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PASSERINE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PREDATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SEED DISPERSAL; SNAIL; SURVIVAL; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT;

BONIN ISLANDS; HONSHU; JAPAN; KANTO; TOKYO [KANTO];

ANIMALIA; AVES; GASTROPODA; HYPSIPETES AMAUROTIS; STYLOMMATOPHORA; TORNATELLIDES; ZOSTEROPS JAPONICUS;

EID: 83555177604     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02559.x     Document Type: Article

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