Effects of Food Quality and Energy Needs: Changes in Gut Morphology and Capacity of Microtus ochrogaster
- 29 November 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Mammalogy
- Vol. 66 (4) , 661-667
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1380792
Abstract
Prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster) were held at 5°C or 23°C and fed an energy concentrate or energy dilute diet in a factorial design. With greaterThis publication has 21 references indexed in Scilit:
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