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Opisthocomus hoazin

Known as: Opisthocomus hoazin hoazin, hoatzin 
National Institutes of Health

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2009
2009
Sound the stressor: how Hoatzins (Opisthocomus hoazin) react to ecotourist conversation
Exposure to ecotourists often disrupts animal behavior, which is known to contribute to heightened mortality rates. In the Amazon… 
Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Rumen-like methanogens identified from the crop of the folivorous South American bird, the hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin)
The hoatzin is the only known avian species with foregut fermentation. It is a primarily folivorous feeder and has a distended… 
Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
Bacterial Community in the Crop of the Hoatzin, a Neotropical Folivorous Flying Bird
ABSTRACT The hoatzin is unique among known avian species because of the fermentative function of its enlarged crop. A small… 
2007
2007
Bacterial detoxification of saponins in the crop of the avian foregut fermenter Opisthocomus hoazin
The hoatzin is a folivorous bird with microbial fermentation in the crop that consumes plants that contain saponins. We… 
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Exposure to ecotourism reduces survival and affects stress response in hoatzin chicks (Opisthocomus hoazin)
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Phylogenetic relationships of the enigmatic hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin) resolved using mitochondrial and nuclear gene sequences
The hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin) is a bizarre, long-tailed, crested bird that inhabits the riparian lowlands of South America… 
1995
1995
STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF THE DIGESTIVE TRACT OF THE HOATZIN (OPISTHOCOMUS HOAZIN): A FOLIVOROUS BIRD WITH FOREGUT FERMENTATION
ABSTAcT.-The Hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin) is a unique obligate folivorous bird with a well-developed foregut fermentation system… 
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
Molecular adaptation of a leaf-eating bird: stomach lysozyme of the hoatzin.
This report describes a lysozyme expressed at high levels in the stomach of the hoatzin, the only known foregut-fermenting bird… 
1994
1994
Ecology of the Folivorous Hoatzin (Opisthocomus Hoazin) on the Venezuelan Plains
-The Hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin) is the only avian folivore known to have fermentative digestion in the crop. We compare… 
Review
1988
Review
1988
The scleral ossicles of Opisthocomus and their phylogenetic significance
--Dried scleral rings of Opisthocomus, Galliformes, Cuculiformes, and other birds were examined to determine the pattern of… 
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