Insectivorous Bats Digest Chitin in the Stomach Using Acidic Mammalian Chitinase

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Strobel, Sara ^a   Roswag, Anna ^a   Becker, Nina I ^a   Trenczek, Tina E ^a   Encarnação, Jorge A ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHITIN; CHITINASE;

ACIDITY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; DIGESTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT FUNCTION; INSECTIVORE; INTESTINE FUNCTION; MAMMAL; MYOTIS BECHSTEINII; MYOTIS DAUBENTONII; MYOTIS MYOTIS; MYOTIS NATTERERI; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; NYCTALUS LEISLERI; PIPISTRELLUS PIPISTRELLUS; PLECOTUS AURITUS; STOMACH CHIEF CELL; STOMACH FUNCTION; STOMACH GLAND; TISSUE SECTION;

ACIDS; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHIROPTERA; CHITIN; CHITINASE; HYDROLYSIS; INSECTS; STOMACH;

EID: 84883340964     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072770     Document Type: Article

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