The digestive system in mammals : food, form, and function /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1994.
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Table of Contents:
- Gut form and function: variations and terminology / D.J. Chivers, P. Langer
- Food and digestion of Cenozoic mammals in Europe / P. Langer
- Modeling gut function: an introduction / C. Martinez del Rio, S.J. Cork, W.H. Karasov
- Optimum gut structure for specified diets / R. McNeill Alexander
- Food
- Foods and the digestive system / C.M. Hladik, D.J. Chivers
- Classification of foods for comparative analysis of the gastro-intestinal tract / P. Langer, D.J. Chivers
- Carnivorous herbivores / R.J. Moir.
- Nutritional ecology of fruit-eating and flower-visiting birds and bats / C. Martinez del Rio
- Herbivory and niche partitioning / M.R. Perrin
- Taste discrimination and diet differentiation among New World primates / B. Simmen
- Potential hominid plant foods from woody species in semi-arid versus sub-humid sub-tropical Africa / C.R. Peters, E.M. O'Brien
- Form
- Form of selected regions of the gastro-intestinal tract / G. Bjornhag, P. Langer
- Categorisation of food items relevant to oral processing / P.W. Lucus.
- Direct method for measurement of gross surface area of mammalian gastro-intestinal tracts / M. Young Owl
- Morphometric methods for determining surface enlargement at the microscopic level in the large intestine and their application / R.L. Snipes
- Weaning time and bypass structures in the forestomachs of Marsupialia and Eutheria / P. Langer
- Adaptations in the large intestine allowing small animals to eat fibrous foods / G. Bjornhag
- Function
- Foraging and digestion in herbivores / G.O. Batzli, I.D. Hume.
- Gut morphology, body size and digestive performance in rodents / I.D. Hume
- Integrated processing response in herbivorous small mammals / G.O. Batzli, A.D. Broussard, R.J. Oliver
- Digestive constraints on dietary scope in small and moderately-small mammals: how much do we really understand / S.J. Cork
- Effects and costs of allelochemicals for mammalian herbivores: an ecological perspective / W.J. Foley, C. McArthur
- Short-chain fatty acids as a physiological signal from gut microbes / T. Sakata.
- Synthesis and perspectives
- Food, form and function: interrelationships and future needs.