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Bridging digestive physiology and ecology for a more integrative understanding of invertebrate predators
ABSTRACTNutritional ecology aims to explore the connections between the behaviour, physiology and ecology of organisms using nutrients as the unifying currency. Although significant progress has been made in studying the nutritional ecology of ver...
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Posted: July 11, 2025, 12:00 am
Gut microbial contributions to thermogenesis
ABSTRACTThe role of the gut microbiota in influencing physiological processes has become increasingly evident over the past several decades. One such process, thermogenesis, has become a topic of interest in recent years owing to the threat of cli...
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Posted: July 11, 2025, 12:00 am
Beyond ecology: the importance of gut motility in predicting the responses of species to climate change
ABSTRACTThis Review explores the impact of environmental factors, with temperature as a starting point, on gut motility and digestive function in non-mammalian vertebrates, with a focus on species that are likely to be affected by climate change. ...
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Posted: July 4, 2025, 12:00 am
Fish gut plasticity and its role as a potential mechanism for coping with warming and hypoxia
ABSTRACTThe fish gut plays a critical role in nutrient absorption, growth, immune response modulation, health and overall homeostasis. It also represents one of the most energetically expensive organ systems to maintain and demonstrates remarkable...
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Posted: July 3, 2025, 12:00 am
An early-life perspective is needed to explain the impact of gut microbiota on wild vertebrate phenotypes
ABSTRACTVertebrates house dense and diverse communities of microorganisms in their gastrointestinal tracts. These communities shape host physiological and ecological phenotypes in diverse ways, with implications for animal fitness in nature. Expos...
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Posted: July 2, 2025, 12:00 am
A second look at the stomach – a fishy perspective
ABSTRACTDespite the established evolutionary importance of stomach acidification in vertebrates, the exact contribution of this process to overall protein digestion, nutrient absorption, growth, energy metabolism and development has not been fully...
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Posted: July 1, 2025, 12:00 am
ECR Spotlight – Patrícia Ferreira
ECR Spotlight is a series of interviews with early-career authors from a selection of papers published in Journal of Experimental Biology and aims to promote not only the diversity of early-career researchers (ECRs) working in experimental biology...
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Posted: July 1, 2025, 12:00 am
Diet-dependent production of calcium- and phosphorus-rich ‘spheroids’ along the intestine of Burmese pythons: identification of a new cell type?
ABSTRACTBurmese pythons, Python molurus bivittatus, digest the skeleton of their prey; this must result in a high amount of calcium and phosphorus passing through the intestinal lining. To determine how Burmese pythons can process this ion influx,...
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Posted: June 25, 2025, 12:00 am
