Diet predicts intestine length in Lake Tanganyika’s cichlid fishes

By C. Wagner, Peter McIntyre, K. Buels, Danielle Gilbert, E. Michel. 2009

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Subfields: Aquatic Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Citations in the corpus

• Moving towards more sustainable aquaculture practices: a meta‐analysis on the potential of plant‐enriched diets to improve fish growth, immunity and disease resistance (2020, background): “Since trophic level is negatively correlated to intestinal length, a pattern that seems to reflect the higher digestive times required to digest plant tissues compared with animal tissues (Wagner et al .”
• Cichlid fishes as models of ecological diversification: patterns, mechanisms, and consequences (2015, background): “(Wagner et al., 2009) because herbivorous species must overcome high fractions of carbon-rich molecules that are difficult to digest relative to nitrogenHydrobiologia”
• Attached Algae: The Cryptic Base of Inverted Trophic Pyramids in Freshwaters (2017, background): “For example, gut length:body length ratios of the grazing cichlid Tropheus brichardi decrease with algal nutrient content (Wagner et al. 2009, Munubi 2015).”