Research Catalog

Title

The Digestive system in mammals : food, form, and function / edited by D.J. Chivers, P. Langer.

Publication

Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Chivers, David John
• Langer, Peter, 1942-

Description

xiv, 446 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.

Subjects

• Mammals > Physiology
• Digestive System Physiological Phenomena
• Digestion
• Mammals > physiology
• Gastrointestinal system > Physiology

Note

• Papers from a workshop held at Selwyn College, Mar. 31-April 4, 1992.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Gut form and function: variations and terminology / D. J. Chivers and P. Langer -- 2. Food and digestion of Cenozoic mammals in Europe / P. Langer -- 3. Modelling gut function: an introduction / C. Martinez del Rio, S. J. Cork and W. H. Karasov -- 4. Optimum gut structure for specified diets / R. McNeill Alexander -- 5. Foods and the digestive system / C. M. Hladik and D. J. Chivers -- 6. Classification of foods for comparative analysis of the gastro-intestinal tract / P. Langer and D. J. Chivers -- 7. The 'carnivorous' herbivores / R. J. Moir -- 8. Nutritional ecology of fruit-eating and flower-visiting birds and bats / C. Martinez del Rio -- 9. Herbivory and niche partitioning / M. R. Perrin -- 10. Taste discrimination and diet differentiation among New World primates / B. Simmen -- 11. Potential hominid plant foods from woody species in semi-arid versus sub-humid sub-tropical Africa / C. R. Peters and E. M. O'Brien.
• 12. The form of selected regions of the gastro-intestinal tract / G. Bjornhag and P. Langer -- 13. Categorisation of food items relevant to oral processing / P. W. Lucas -- 14. A direct method for measurement of gross surface area of mammalian gastro-intestinal tracts / M. Young Owl -- 15. Morphometric methods for determining surface enlargement at the microscopic level in the large intestine and their application / R. L. Snipes -- 16. Weaning time and bypass structures in the forestomachs of Marsupialia and Eutheria / P. Langer -- 17. Adaptations in the large intestine allowing small animals to eat fibrous foods / G. Bjornhag -- 18. Foraging and digestion in herbivores / G. O. Batzli and I. D. Hume -- 19. Gut morphology, body size and digestive performance in rodents / I. D. Hume -- 20. The integrated processing response in herbivorous small mammals / G. O. Batzli, A. D. Broussard and R. J. Oliver.
• 21. Digestive constraints on dietary scope in small and moderately-small mammals: how much do we really understand? / S. J. Cork -- 22. The effects and costs of allelochemicals for mammalian herbivores: an ecological perspective / W. J. Foley and C. McArthur -- 23. Short-chain fatty acids as a physiological signal from gut microbes / T. Sakata -- 24. Food, form and function: interrelationships and future needs / All contributors (operating in three groups).

ISBN

0521440165

LCCN

93032561

OCLC

• 28721828
• ocm28721828
• SCSB-4772416

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