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The digestive adaptation of flying vertebrates: High intestinal paracellular absorption compensates for smaller guts

Anecdotal evidence suggests that birds have smaller intestines than mammals. In the present analysis, we show that small birds and bats have significantly shorter small intestines and less small intestine nominal (smooth bore tube) surface area than similarly sized nonflying mammals. The correspondi...

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Main Authors: Caviedes-Vidal, Enrique, McWhorter, Todd J., Lavin, Shana R., Chediack, Juan G., Tracy, Christopher R., Karasov, William H.
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado em: National Academy of Sciences 2007
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Acesso em linha:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2141920/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18025481
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0703159104
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