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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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| Natura: | Artigo |
| Lingua: | Inglês |
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National Academy of Sciences
2007
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| Accesso online: | 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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