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Please see the following articles:
German, D.P. (2009) Inside the guts of wood-eating catfishes: can they digest wood? Journal of Comparative Physiology B (in press) DOI 10.1007/s00360-009-0381-1
German, D.P. and R.A. Bittong (2009) Digestive enzyme activities and gastrointestinal fermentation in wood-eating catfishes. Journal of Comparative Physiology B (in press) DOI 10.1007/s00360-009-0383-z
And, a rant about a recent Practical Fishkeeping Magazine interview:
http://pd.bio.uci.edu/ee/dgerman/PFK_response.html
These fish aren't like termites.
German, D.P. (2009) Inside the guts of wood-eating catfishes: can they digest wood? Journal of Comparative Physiology B (in press) DOI 10.1007/s00360-009-0381-1
German, D.P. and R.A. Bittong (2009) Digestive enzyme activities and gastrointestinal fermentation in wood-eating catfishes. Journal of Comparative Physiology B (in press) DOI 10.1007/s00360-009-0383-z
And, a rant about a recent Practical Fishkeeping Magazine interview:
http://pd.bio.uci.edu/ee/dgerman/PFK_response.html
These fish aren't like termites.