Nectar-feeding bats fuel their high metabolism directly with exogenous carbohydrates

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• nectar 100%
• bat 78%
• fat 68%
• carbohydrate 67%
• metabolism 56%
• sugar 44%
• sucrose 37%
• glucose 30%
• diet 29%
• mammal 19%
• incorporation 18%
• rate 18%
• substrate 15%
• carbon isotope 10%
• turnover 10%
• energetics 10%
• isotope 8%
• protein 8%
• tissue 8%
• food 7%
• animal 7%
• measuring 7%
• cost 5%
• energy 5%
• experiment 4%

Agriculture & Biology

• nectar feeding 92%
• Chiroptera 63%
• carbohydrates 45%
• metabolism 39%
• fructose 29%
• sugars 29%
• lipids 24%
• sucrose 23%
• glycogen 20%
• glucose 20%
• Glossophaga 17%
• mammals 16%
• low fat diet 14%
• dietary carbohydrate 14%
• lipogenesis 13%
• low protein diet 13%
• gluconeogenesis 13%
• carbon isotopes 13%
• body fat 11%
• diet 11%
• isotopes 11%
• energy 6%
• tissues 4%
• animals 4%