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"Gut Reaction" (Nature)
"In Praise of Pythons" (Nature Science Update)
"Innovative Research With Pythons Offers New Insights Into The Body’s Digestive Processes" (The American Physiological Society)
Photo used with permission of Bart Harris and Bill Hoffman Animal Rentals, Chicago. http://www.animalrentals.com/Images/ExoticAnimals/python.JPG
Resources:
Oakland Zoo. 2003. Burmese Pyhton. http://www.oaklandzoo.org/atoz/azpythn.html Accessed 2003 Oct. 17.
Overgaard, Johannes, Johnnie B. Anderson, and Tobias Wang. 2002. The effects of fasting duration on metabolic response to feeding in Python molurus: an evaluation of the energetic costs associated with gastrointestinal growth and upregulation. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 75 (4): 360-369.
Overgaard, Johannes and Tobias Wang. 2002. Increased blood oxygen affinity during digestion in the snake Python molurus. Journal of Experimental Biology 205: 3327-3334.
Mooney, Stacey D. Burmese Python: WhoZoo. http://www.whozoo.org/students/stamoo/python.html Accessed 2003 Oct. 17.
Secor, Stephen M., Eric D. Stein, and Jared Diamond. 1994. Rapid upregulation of snake intestine in response to feeding: a new model of intestinal adaptation. American Physiological Society: G695-G704.
Secor, Stephen M., James W. Hick, and Albert F. Bennett. 2000. Ventilatory and cardiovascular responses of a python (Python molurus) to exercise and digestion. Journal of Experimental Biology 203 2447-2454.
Secor, Stephen M. and Jared Diamond. 1995. Adaptive responses to feeding in Burmese pythons: pay before pumping. Journal of Experimental Biology 198: 1313-1325.
Secor, Stephen M. and Jared Diamond. 1998. A vertebrate model of extreme physiological regulation. Nature 395: 659-662.
Shackleton, Juliette. 2001 January 17. Gut Reaction: Nautre. http://www.nature.com/ns/010118/010118-6. html Accessed 2003 Oct. 8.
Stark, J.M. and Kathleen Beese. 2001 Structural flexibility of the intestine of Burmese python in response to feeding. Journal of Experimental Biology 204: 325-335.
Photo Credits:
Colijn, Ed. 2002 April 20. Reptiles of Indonesia.http://www.nature-conservation.or.id/inforept.html. Accessed 2003 Oct. 8.
Harris, Bart. 2003. Index of Exotic Animals. http://www.animalrentals.com/Images/ExoticAnimals/python.JPG. Accessed 2003 0ct. 8.
Spinker, Tom. 2002 December 17. Burmese Python. http://www.southalley.com/snakes_exotic.htm. Accessed 2003 Oct. 8.
Voetsch, Fred. 2002. Acclaim Stock Photography. http://www.acclaimstockphotography.com/_gallery/_pages/0001-0305-1909-1353.html. Accessed 2003 Oct. 8.
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