Digestive physiology of captive capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris).
colonic separation mechanism
hindgut fermenters
methane
passage kinetics
Journal
Zoo biology
ISSN: 1098-2361
Titre abrégé: Zoo Biol
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 8807837
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Mar 2019
Mar 2019
Historique:
received:
05
05
2018
revised:
05
12
2018
accepted:
17
12
2018
pubmed:
10
1
2019
medline:
17
4
2019
entrez:
10
1
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris), the largest living rodent, probably has a "mucus-trap" colonic separation mechanism. To test this hypothesis, we measured the mean retention time of a solute marker (MRT
Substances chimiques
Methane
OP0UW79H66
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
167-179Subventions
Organisme : German Research Foundation
ID : OR 86/1-1
Organisme : Elsa-Neumann-Scholarship of the state of Berlin
Organisme : Swiss National Science Foundation
ID : 310030_135252/1
Informations de copyright
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