Retention of different-sized particles and derived gut fill estimate in tammar wallabies (Macropus eugenii): Physiological and methodological considerations

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 161, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 243-249

  Munn, Adam J ^a,b   Tomlinson, Susie ^b   Savage, Tom ^b   Clauss, Marcus ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Digestion; Gut capacity; Herbivory; Macropod; Retention

Indexed keywords

COBALT EDETATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASCENDING COLON; BODY MASS; CECUM; DESCENDING COLON; DIGESTIVE TRACT PARAMETERS; DISSECTION; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; GUT FILL; INTESTINE TRANSIT TIME; MARSUPIAL; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; SMALL INTESTINE; STOMACH; STOMACH CONTENT; WALLABY;

ANIMALIA; MACROPUS EUGENII;

EID: 83555178396     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2011.11.003     Document Type: Article

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