Biology:Foregut fermentation
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Short description: Form of digestion
Foregut fermentation is a form of digestion that occurs in the foregut of some animals. It has evolved independently in several groups of mammals, and also in the hoatzin bird.
Foregut fermentation is employed by ruminants and pseudoruminants, some rodents and some marsupials.[1] It has also evolved in colobine monkeys and in sloths.[2]
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References
- ↑ Munn, Adam J.; Snelling, Edward P.; Taggart, David A.; Clauss, Marcus (2022). "Scaling at different ontogenetic stages: Gastrointestinal tract contents of a marsupial foregut fermenter, the western grey kangaroo Macropus fuliginosus melanops". Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology (Elsevier BV) 264: 111100. doi:10.1016/j.cbpa.2021.111100. ISSN 1095-6433.
- ↑ "Foregut fermentation in mammals". Map of Life. 2010-07-22. http://www.mapoflife.org/topics/topic_573_Foregut-fermentation-in-mammals/. Retrieved 2010-11-11.
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