When birds migrate over long distances to and from their breeding grounds, it takes more than strong flight muscles and an innate knowledge of where they're going. According to a University of ...

The study of the digestive physiology and diet of octopus species has provided significant insights into the complex interplay between enzyme activity, nutrient assimilation and overall metabolic ...

Springer is founding a new journal Food Digestion, dedicated to a quickly growing area of research – food science combined with the physiology of digestion. The journal will publish two issues in 2010 ...

Concerns the case of Alexis St. Martin, whose relations with Beaumont are summarized in the introduction. This edition was reissued in Boston in 1834. The second American edition was published in 1847 ...

Like living herbivorous lizards, chelonians, birds, and mammals, plant-eating dinosaurs probably relied on a symbiotic gut microflora, housed in a hindgut fermentation chamber, to break down plant ...

The so-called 'inefficiency' of the perissodactyls, resulting from the evolution of a cecal site of fermentation, arises because the strategy of selecting fibrous herbage was developed early in their ...

The Nutritional Biology Graduate Group is an interdisciplinary program designed to provide the skills, and prepare students for modern, cutting-edge nutrition research. The faculty encompasses several ...

And it can be tempting to stop at that point. The answer to the How question lies in the physiology of digestion outside the main body of the organism; details obtained by study of other insectivorous ...