The digestive tract as an essential organ for water acquisition in marine teleosts: lessons from eur...
The digestive tract as an essential organ for water acquisition in marine teleosts: lessons from euryhaline eels
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London: BioMed Central
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Adaptation to a hypertonic marine environment is one of the major topics in animal physiology research. Marine teleosts lose water osmotically from the gills and compensate for this loss by drinking surrounding seawater and absorbing water from the intestine. This situation is in contrast to that in mammals, which experience a net osmotic loss of w...
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The digestive tract as an essential organ for water acquisition in marine teleosts: lessons from euryhaline eels
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2056-306X
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2056-306X
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10.1186/s40851-021-00175-x
