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Chemical composition of snakes
The present study was carried out to provide insight into the body composition of snakes, which is an important basis for determination of nutrient requirement and physiological processes. Carcasses of 86 captive snakes (31 pythons, 32 colubrids and 23 boas) were available for analysis. Skins and ve...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9239482/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35763487 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266850 |
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author | Kölle, Petra Böswald, Linda F. Brenner, Annita Kienzle, Ellen |
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description | The present study was carried out to provide insight into the body composition of snakes, which is an important basis for determination of nutrient requirement and physiological processes. Carcasses of 86 captive snakes (31 pythons, 32 colubrids and 23 boas) were available for analysis. Skins and vertebrae bones of 11 snakes and livers of 64 snakes were analysed separately from the carcasses. Crude nutrients, major minerals and trace elements were investigated. The content of crude nutrients of the whole body was similar to those of mammals and birds. Relatively high contents of copper, zinc and especially of iron (up to 23,973 mg/kg dry matter) were found in the body, particularly in the liver. There was an increase of the iron content of the whole body over age. |
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spelling | pubmed-92394822022-06-29 Chemical composition of snakes Kölle, Petra Böswald, Linda F. Brenner, Annita Kienzle, Ellen PLoS One Research Article The present study was carried out to provide insight into the body composition of snakes, which is an important basis for determination of nutrient requirement and physiological processes. Carcasses of 86 captive snakes (31 pythons, 32 colubrids and 23 boas) were available for analysis. Skins and vertebrae bones of 11 snakes and livers of 64 snakes were analysed separately from the carcasses. Crude nutrients, major minerals and trace elements were investigated. The content of crude nutrients of the whole body was similar to those of mammals and birds. Relatively high contents of copper, zinc and especially of iron (up to 23,973 mg/kg dry matter) were found in the body, particularly in the liver. There was an increase of the iron content of the whole body over age. Public Library of Science 2022-06-28 /pmc/articles/PMC9239482/ /pubmed/35763487 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266850 Text en © 2022 Kölle et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Kölle, Petra Böswald, Linda F. Brenner, Annita Kienzle, Ellen Chemical composition of snakes |
title | Chemical composition of snakes |
title_full | Chemical composition of snakes |
title_fullStr | Chemical composition of snakes |
title_full_unstemmed | Chemical composition of snakes |
title_short | Chemical composition of snakes |
title_sort | chemical composition of snakes |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9239482/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35763487 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266850 |
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