Physiological and ecological adaptations to feeding in vertebrates /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Enfield, (NH) :
Science Publishers,
[2005]
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Table of Contents:
- The diversity of vertebrate feeding systems
- Concepts of digestive efficiency
- Carbohydrate hydrolysis and absorption : lessons from modeling digestive function
- Digestive constraints in mammalian and avian ecology
- Paracellular intestinal absorption of carbohydrates in mammals and birds
- Mass balance models for animal isotopic ecology
- Structural flexibility of the digestive system of tetrapods - patterns and processes at the cellular and tissue level
- Adaptive interplay between feeding ecology and features of the digestive tract in birds
- Gastrointestinal responses to fasting in mammals - lessons from hibernators
- Interplay between diet, microbes, and immune defenses of the gastrointestinal tract
- Effects of digestion on the respiratory and cardiovascular physiology of amphibians and reptiles
- Specific dynamic action in ectothermic vertebrates : a general review on the determinants of post-prandial metabolic response in fishes, amphibians, and reptiles
- Control of gut motility and secretion in fasting and fed non-mammalian vertebrates
- Effects of dietary fatty acids on the physiology of environmental adaptation in fish
- Aspects of protein and amino acids digestion and utilization by marine fish larvae