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Cats and Carbohydrates: The Carnivore Fantasy?

The domestic cat’s wild ancestors are obligate carnivores that consume prey containing only minimal amounts of carbohydrates. Evolutionary events adapted the cat’s metabolism and physiology to this diet strictly composed of animal tissues and led to unique digestive and metabolic peculiarities of ca...

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Autores principales: Verbrugghe, Adronie, Hesta, Myriam
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5753635/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29140289
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vetsci4040055