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Carbohydrate digestion in a herbivorous snail, Tegula funebralis by Donald R. Galli; Arthur C. Giese is a Environmental Science article available to read on EtoBox.
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Digestion of food taken in by the black turban snail, Tegula funebralis, presents some interesting problems because of its diet which consists almost entirely of marine plants. Turban snails live in a wide band of the upper intertidal zone and are known to scrape the film of minute organisms encrusted on the surfaces of rocks and fronds of algae, and to browse upon the algae in intermediate and deeper pools. Gut contents of Tegulu brought in from the field reveal identifiable fragments of algae: green (e.g., Ulvu), red (eg., fridophycus, Gigartilza and the corallines) and brown, as well as diatoms in large quantities and less conspicuously, pieces of animals such as arthropods, tiny mollusks, bryozoans and even snail eggs. Although the marine plants constituting the bulk of the diet of Tegula contain some protein, lipid, glucans and sugar alcohols (all probably readily digested by animal life), they are for the most part composed of complex structural carbohydrates. These energy-rich polysaccharides include, in addition to the ubiquitous cellulose found in all plant life, a large number of peculiar sulfuric acid esters and polymers of galactose, uronic acids, and methylpentoses (se
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- Author
- Donald R. Galli; Arthur C. Giese
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0022-104X)
- Published
- 1959
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Environmental Science (Life Sciences)