Sugar preferences, absorption efficiency and water influx in a Neotropical nectarivorous passerine, the Bananaquit (Coereba flaveola)

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 139, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 395-404

  Mata, Astolfo ^a,c   Bosque, Carlos ^b  

^a INSTITUTO VENEZOLANO DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS   (Venezuela)

^b UNIVERSIDAD SIMÓN BOLÍVAR   (Venezuela)

^c USA ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Bananaquit; Coereba; Energy balance; Nectar; Nectarivory; Physiological constraints; Sugar assimilation; Sugar concentration

Indexed keywords

FRUCTOSE; GLUCOSE; HEXOSE; SUCROSE; SUGAR; WATER;

ABSORPTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CALORIC INTAKE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); FOOD INTAKE; FOOD PROCESSING; NECTAR; NONHUMAN; OSMOLARITY; PHYLOGENY; VOLUMETRY;

AVES; COEREBA; COEREBA FLAVEOLA; EMBERIZINAE; FRINGILLIDAE; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 9144268976     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpb.2004.10.012     Document Type: Article

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