Search Results - "Greenaway, Peter"
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review of feeding and nutrition of herbivorous land crabs: adaptations to low quality plant diets
Published in Journal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology (01-04-2007)“…This paper reviews the nutritional ecology, the digestive physiology, and biochemistry of herbivorous land crabs and the adaptations that they possess towards…”
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Presence and properties of cellulase and hemicellulase enzymes of the gecarcinid land crabs Gecarcoidea natalis and Discoplax hirtipes
Published in Journal of experimental biology (01-11-2004)“…Digestive juice from the herbivorous gecarcinid land crabs Gecarcoidea natalis and Discoplax hirtipes exhibited total cellulase activity and activities of two…”
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Insect-Like Olfactory Adaptations in the Terrestrial Giant Robber Crab
Published in Current biology (26-01-2005)“…The robber crab (Birgus latro), also known as the coconut crab, is the world's largest land-living arthropod, with a weight reaching 4 kg and a length of over…”
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Sodium and Water Balance in Free-Ranging Robber Crabs, Birgus Latro (Anomura: Coenobitidae)
Published in Journal of crustacean biology (2001)“…Abstract The rates of exchange of sodium and water and renal filtration rates were measured in field populations of Birgus latro (Linnaeus, 1756) in rain…”
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Dietary assimilation and the digestive strategy of the omnivorous anomuran land crab Birgus latro (Coenobitidae)
Published in Journal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology (01-05-2004)“…On Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, the diet of robber crabs, Birgus latro (Linnaeus) was generally high in fat, storage polysaccharides or protein and largely…”
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Digestive Strategies in Two Species of Leaf‐Eating Land Crabs (Brachyura: Gecarcinidae) in a Rain Forest
Published in Physiological Zoology (01-01-1998)“…Two species of herbivorous land crabs from Christmas Island,Cardisoma hirtipesandGecarcoidea natalis, overlap in both diet and distribution. This study…”
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Morphology and ultrastructure of the gills of terrestrial crabs (Crustacea, Gecardinidae and Grapsidae): adaptations for air-breathing
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Endogenous production of endo-β-1,4-glucanase by decapod crustaceans
Published in Journal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology (01-05-2006)“…The potential ability to produce cellulase enzymes endogenously was examined in decapods crustaceans including the herbivorous gecarcinid land crabs…”
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SODIUM AND WATER BALANCE IN FREE-RANGING ROBBER CRABS, BIRGUS LATRO (ANOMURA: COENOBITIDAE)
Published in Journal of crustacean biology (01-05-2001)“…The rates of exchange of sodium and water and renal filtration rates were measured in field populations of Birgus latro (Linnaeus, 1756) in rain forest on…”
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Dietary Assimilation and Food Retention Time in the Herbivorous Terrestrial Crab Gecarcoidea natalis
Published in Physiological zoology (01-11-1995)“…The ability of Gecarcoidea natalis to assimilate salts, nitrogen, energy, and fiber components from fallen leaves of Ficus macrophylla and Erythrina variegata…”
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The Effect of Moulting and Sodium Depletion on Sodium Transport and the Activities of Na +K +-ATPase, and V-ATPase in the Freshwater Crayfish Cherax destructor (Crustacea: Parastacidae)
Published in Comparative biochemistry and physiology. Part A, Molecular & integrative physiology (01-03-1998)“…The activities of Na +K +ATPase and V-ATPase in the gills of Cherax destructor were measured and related to changed levels of sodium flux in intermoult and…”
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Endogenous production of endo-[beta]-1,4-glucanase by decapod crustaceans
Published in Journal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology (01-05-2006)“…The potential ability to produce cellulase enzymes endogenously was examined in decapods crustaceans including the herbivorous gecarcinid land crabs…”
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Sodium and Water Balance in Free-Ranging Robber Crabs, Birgus Latro (Anomura: Coenobitidae)
Published in Journal of crustacean biology (2001)“…Abstract The rates of exchange of sodium and water and renal filtration rates were measured in field populations of Birgus latro (Linnaeus, 1756) in rain…”
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Calcium and Magnesium Balance during Molting in Land Crabs
Published in Journal of crustacean biology (01-05-1993)Get full text
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The Nitrogen Requirements and Dietary Nitrogen Utilization for the Gecarcinid Land CrabGecarcoidea natalis
Published in Physiological and biochemical zoology (01-03-2000)“…The nitrogen requirements for tissue maintenance, moulting, and oogenesis were determined experimentally for the herbivorous land crabGecarcoidea natalis. The…”
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Salt and Water Balance in Field Populations of the Terrestrial Crab Gecarcoidea natalis
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High affinity, Ca2+ specific ATPase and Na+K(+)-ATPase in the gills of a supralittoral crab Leptograpsus variegatus
Published in Comparative biochemistry and physiology. Comparative physiology (01-05-1992)“…1. The gills of Leptograpsus variegatus contain a high-affinity, Ca(2+)-activated ATPase, probably located in the basolateral plasma membrane of the gill…”
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EXCRETORY AND STORAGE PURINES IN THE ANOMURAN LAND CRAB BIRGUS LATRO; GUANINE AND URIC ACID
Published in Journal of crustacean biology (01-02-2005)“…Birgus latro excretes nitrogenous waste as a mixture of urate and guanine and not predominantly urate as believed previously. The presence of guanine in faeces…”
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