Digestive Physiology
Digestive Physiology
Digestive Physiology
Karasov, W. H., C. Martinez del Rio, and E. Caviedes-Vidal. 2011. Ecological physiology of diet and digestive systems. Annual Review of Physiology 73: 69-9
Caviedes-Vidal, E., D. Afik, C. Martínez del Rio, and W. H. Karasov. 2000. Dietary modulation of intestinal enzymes of the house sparrow (Passer domesticus): testing and adaptive hypothesis. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 125A: 11-24.
Levey, D. J. and C. Martínez del Rio. 1999. Tests, rejection, and reformulation of a guts as reactors optimal digestion model in a frugivorous bird. Physiological Zoology 72: 369-383.
Levey, D. J., A. R. Place, P. J. Rey, and C. Martínez del Rio. 1999. An experimental test of dietary enzyme modulation in pine warblers (Dendroica pinus). Physiological Zoology 72: 576-587.
Jumars, P. and C. Martínez del Rio. 1999 The tau of continuous feeding on simple foods. Physiological Zoology 72: 633-641.
Sabat, P., F. Novoa, F. Bozinovic, and C. Martínez del Rio. 1998. Dietary plasticity and intestinal lability in birds: a field and laboratory study. Physiological Zoology 71: 226-236.
Martínez del Rio, C. 1997. Can Passerine Birds Synthesize Vitamin C? The Auk 114: 513-515.
Martínez del Rio, C., K. Brugger, M. Witmer, J. Rios, and E. Vergara. 1995. An experimental and comparative study of dietary modulation of intestinal enzymes in European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris). Physiological Zoology 68: 490-511.(PDF)
Afik, D., E. Caviedes, C. Martínez del Rio and W. H. Karasov. 1995. Dietary modulation of intestinal hydrolytic enzymes in yellow-rumped warblers. American Journal of Physiology 269: R413-R420.
Malcarney, H., C. Martínez del Rio and V. Apanius. 1994. Sucrose intolerance in birds: simple non-lethal diagnostic methods and consequences for the assimilation of complex carbohydrates. The Auk 111: 170-177.
Martínez del Rio, C., S. Cork, and W. H. Karasov. 1994. Engineering and digestion: modeling gut function. Pages 25-53 in Chivers, D. and P. Langer (eds.) Food and form and function of the mammalian digestive tract. Cambridge University Press.
Biviano, A. B., C. Martínez del Rio, and D. L. Phillips. 1993. Ontogeny of sucrase and maltase in chickens fed contrasting purified diets. Journal of Comparative Physiology 163: 508-510.
Hernandez, A., and C. Martínez del Rio. 1992. Intestinal disaccharidases of five species of phyllostomoid bats with contrasting feeding habits. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 103B: 105-111.
Martínez del Rio, C. 1990. Dietary and phylogenetic correlates of intestinal sucrase and maltase activity in birds. Physiological Zoology 63: 987- 1011.
Martínez del Rio, C. and W. H. Karasov. 1990. Digestion strategies in fruit and nectar eating birds and the sugar composition of plant rewards. The American Naturalist 136: 618-637.
Martínez del Rio, C. and B. R., Stevens. 1989. Physiological on feeding behavior: the intestinal brush border membrane disaccharidases of the European Starling. Science 243: 794-796.
Martínez del Rio, C., B. R. Stevens, D. E. Daneke and P. T. Andreadis. 1988. Physiological correlates of preference and aversion for sugars in three species of birds. Physiological Zoology 61: 222-229.
Martínez del Rio, C. and B. R. Stevens. 1988. Disaccharidases of Alligator (Alligator mississipiensis). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 91B: 751-754.