TITLE:
Shifts in Circulating Concentrations of Glucose in Domesticated Mammals: Is There a Consistent Adaptation to Domestication?
AUTHORS:
Colin G. Scanes
KEYWORDS:
Circulating Glucose, Livestock, Domestication
JOURNAL NAME:
Food and Nutrition Sciences,
Vol.5 No.17,
September
5,
2014
ABSTRACT: There have been marked changes in amylase gene number during human evolution resulting in shifts in carbohydrate metabolism. This has been related to utilization of starch. Similarly, there are changes in enzymes related to carbohydrate metabolism in dogs. Again, this has been linked to improving starch utilization following domestication. It was questioned as circulating concentrations of glucose is a good indicator of putative differences in carbohydrate metabolism across domesticated animals. Domesticated bovids had lower (p