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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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Glavni autori: Caviedes-Vidal, Enrique, McWhorter, Todd J., Lavin, Shana R., Chediack, Juan G., Tracy, Christopher R., Karasov, William H.
Format: Artigo
Jezik:Inglês
Izdano: National Academy of Sciences 2007
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Online pristup: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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