Digestive System of Vertebrates: Fish: Carp

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THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM OF VERTEBRATES

FISH: Carp

Common carp (photo by John Scarola) (from CD Chapter 2)

Table 7.1. Effect of body temperature on digesta transit in fish (from CD Chapter 7)
Water temperature and feeding behavior in grass carp

Water temperature and feeding behavior in grass carp

Table 9.3 (from CD Chapter 9)
Microbial counts in the midgut of vertebrates

Table 9.6. (from CD Chapter 9)
Short chain fatty acids in the midgut of vertebrates

Dashes indicate absence of information. Contributions of SCFA to maintenance energy were estimated from the rate of SCFA production by in vitro isotope dilution or measurements of digesta flow. Total maintenance energy was either calculated as twice the BMR or assumed to be equivalent to ad libitum digestible energy intake in captive, nonreproducing, adult animals. (From Stevens and Hume 1995)