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Fig. 6. Total specific dynamic action (SDA; 600 kJ) of a 1 kg Python molurus resulting from the digestion of a rat meal equal in mass to 25% of the snake's body mass, partitioned among the components of gastric performance, protein synthesis, gastrointestinal (GI) upregulation and other activities. Note in this example that the energy expended on gastric performance is the largest component of SDA.





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