Foregut_fermentation

Foregut fermentation

Foregut fermentation

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, a species of 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]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    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. 264. Elsevier BV: 111100. doi:10.1016/j.cbpa.2021.111100. hdl:2263/82855. ISSN 1095-6433.
  2. [2]
    "Foregut fermentation in mammals". Map of Life. 2010-07-22. Retrieved 2010-11-11.


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