Consumption of toxic plants by the hoatzin

摘要：

The hoatzin is a folivore bird with crop microbial fermentation. We studied plants selected by the hoatzin as food and their toxicity, in relation with non-selected plants. Toxicity of dietary and non dietary plants was tested in bioassays of ethanol plant extracts on eukaryote cells lines and on crop bacterial cultures. The hoatzin selected young leaves and soft tissues from the plants regardless their abundance or their cytotoxic activity. The most cytotoxic dietary plants were from Pithecellobium and Pterocarpus genera, and crop bacteria were less inhibited by plant extracts if the corresponding plants were consumed.

关键词： hoatzin crop fermentation plant toxins cytotoxicity

作者: M.G.Dominguez-Bello R.E.Aguiar M.A.García-Amado F.Michelangeli

作者单位: Departament of Biology, University of Puerto Rico San Juan, PR 00931, USA Laboratory of Gastrointestinal Physiology, CBB, Venezuelan Institute of Scientific Investigations Ca

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: The 7tb International Symposium on the Nutrition of Herbivores(ISNH-7)(第七届国际草食动物营养研讨会)

会议地点: 北京

会议语种:英文

页码: 802-806

在线出版日期: 2007-09-16（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）