The Domestic Chick: A Substitute for the Honey-Guide as a Symbiont with Cerolytic Microorganisms

Autor:	Jerome Kern, Herbert Friedmann, James H. Rust
Rok vydání:	1957
Předmět:	Wax animal structures Host (biology) Ecology Microorganism visual_art fungi visual_art.visual_art_medium food and beverages Zoology Biology Digestion Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics
Zdroj:	The American Naturalist. 91:321-325
ISSN:	1537-5323 0003-0147
DOI:	10.1086/281994
Popis:	The experiments described in this report represent a portion of a more comprehensive study which deals with the mechanisms of wax digestion in an African bird, the lesser honey-guide, Indicator minor. It has been found that newly hatched domestic chicks will also metabolize waxes provided these materials are fed to them together with cerolytic microorganisms initially isolated from the gut of the honey-guide. The chicken alone is not able to break down the wax, and the microorganisms alone can do far less along this line than when in the intestinal environment of the host bird.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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