Enzyme
- Flight energetics, caste dimorphism and scaling properties in the bumblebee, Bombus impatiens
Summary: Comparing worker and queen bumblebees reveals how body size impacts flight energetics and muscle metabolism.
- Small intestinal hydrolysis of plant glucosides: higher glucohydrolase activities in rodents than passerine birds
Summary: The capacity of birds to hydrolyze glucosides and release toxins conjugated to sugars, which was uncertain, is shown to be low compared with that of rodents.