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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Asıl Yazarlar: Caviedes-Vidal, Enrique, McWhorter, Todd J., Lavin, Shana R., Chediack, Juan G., Tracy, Christopher R., Karasov, William H.
Materyal Türü: Artigo
Dil:Inglês
Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: National Academy of Sciences 2007
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Biological Sciences
Online Erişim: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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