Gansu Zokor(Myospalax cansus) is a small mammal that spends all their lives underground in sealed burrows. To explore the digestive strategies and regulation in natural environment, and to understand the plasticity of digestive tract, seasonal changes of digestive tract were measured at organ and tissue levels, respectively. We measured the lengths of digestive tract and stomach, thicknesses of mucosa, submucosa and muscular layer, and height of tomentum during development, and analyzed the data by one-way ...
【基金】
国家自然科学基金项目(No.30670360)
【更新日期】
2016-08-04
【分类号】
Q954.3
【正文快照】
成功摄取和分配能量对动物的生存、生长发育及繁殖具有重要的影响(Secor 2001)。消化道是动物机体获得和分配能量,用于生存、生长和繁殖的器官(Karasov 1990,Secor2001)。因此,消化道特征的变化程度与食物质量的关系一直是消化生理和摄食生态的中心议题(Weiner 1992,del Valle