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 such as the hamster rat, langur monkey, and the hippopotamus.[1] It has evolved independently in several groups of mammals, and also in the hoatzin, a bird species.
Foregut fermentation is employed by ruminants and pseudoruminants, some rodents and some marsupials.[2] It has also evolved in colobine monkeys and in sloths.[3]
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References
- ↑ Dehority, Burk A. (1997), Mackie, Roderick I.; White, Bryan A., eds., "Foregut Fermentation" (in en), Gastrointestinal Microbiology: Volume 1 Gastrointestinal Ecosystems and Fermentations (Boston, MA: Springer US): pp. 39–83, doi:10.1007/978-1-4615-4111-0_3, ISBN 978-1-4615-4111-0, https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4615-4111-0_3, retrieved 2024-09-15
- ↑ 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. 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/.
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