Diet selection and digestion inIguana ig
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Katherine Troyer
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Article
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1984
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Springer-Verlag
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English
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The green iguana, Iguana iguana, is herbivorous throughout life, and depends on a microbial fermentation system in the hindgut to degrade plant fiber. Because the metabolic rates of lizards are proportional to body mass raised to the 0.80 power, hatchling iguanas have 2X, and juveniles 1.4X, greater