For more than 200 years, the metabolic response that accompanies meal digestion has
been characterized, theorized, and experimentally studied. Historically labeled “specific …

▪ Abstract The ability of animals to survive food deprivation is clearly of considerable survival
value. Unsurprisingly, therefore, all animals exhibit adaptive biochemical and physiological …

Environmental temperature and gut microbial communities can both have profound impacts
on the digestive performance of ectothermic vertebrates. Additionally, the diversity …

Specific dynamic action (SDA) is the term used to refer to the increased metabolic
expenditure that occurs in postprandial animals. Postprandial increases in metabolism were …

Temperature has a dramatic effect on the physiology of ectothermic animals, impacting most
of their biology. When temperatures increase above optimal for an animal, their growth …

To address the ongoing debate over the impact of invasive species on native terrestrial
wildlife, we conducted a large-scale experiment to test the hypothesis that invasive Burmese …

As an apparent adaptation to predictably long episodes of fasting, the sit-and-wait foraging
Burmese python experiences unprecedented regulation of gastrointestinal and …

The large intact prey ingested by Burmese pythons require considerable processing by the
stomach before passage into the small intestine. To investigate the function and cost of …

A Gram-stain-negative, non-motile, strictly anaerobic, oval-shaped, non-spore-forming
bacterium (strain PytT) was isolated from reticulated python faeces. Strain PytT was capable …

To test whether the effects of temperature on the metabolic mode changed among different
fish species, we investigated the specific dynamic action (SDA) and swimming performance …