Sugar assimilation and digestive efficiency in Wahlberg's epauletted fruit bat (Epomophorus wahlbergi)

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 161, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 344-348

  Downs, Colleen T ^a   Mqokeli, Babalwa ^a   Singh, Preshnee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Energy intake; Frugivory; Glucose; Sucrose; Volumetric intake

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; SUCROSE; SUGAR;

ARTICLE; BAT; BODY MASS; CALORIC INTAKE; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; EPOMOPHORUS WAHLBERGI; GLUCOSE INTAKE; NONHUMAN; SUGAR INTAKE;

EPOMOPHORUS WAHLBERGI;

EID: 84856115935     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2011.12.003     Document Type: Article

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