Coprophagia

Coprophagia is the consumption of feces, from the Greek copros and phagein . Many animal species have evolved to practice coprophagia; otherspecies do not normally consume feces but may do so under unusual conditions. Only in rare cases is it practiced by humans, most cases revolving around sexual scenarios. (From the Wikpedia article Coprophagia.)

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Recent Publications on Coprophagia:
From coprophagy to predation: a dung beetle that kills millipedes. The dung beetle subfamily Scarabaeinae is a cosmopolitan group of insects...	1st May, 2009	Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University,	Biol Lett. 2009 Apr 23;5(2):152-5. Epub 2009 Jan 20. DOI Direct Link
Canine echinococcosis in Kyrgyzstan: using prevalence data adjusted for measurement error to develop transmission dynamics models. Echinococcosis is a major emerging zoonosis in central Asia. A...	8th January, 2009	Institute of Parasitology, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 266a,	Int J Parasitol. 2008 Aug;38(10):1179-90. Epub 2008 Feb 20. DOI Direct Link
Significance of coprophagy for the fatty acid profile in body tissues of rabbits fed different diets. Four groups of eight New Zealand hybrid rabbits were fattened with ad...	4th November, 2008	Department of Agricultural and Food Science, ETH Zurich,	Lipids. 2008 Sep;43(9):853-65. Epub 2008 Jul 15. DOI Direct Link
Comparison of challenge models for determining the colonization dose of Campylobacter jejuni in broiler chicks. Coprophagous activity is normal among broiler chickens. The purpose of...	29th October, 2008	USDA, Agricultural Research Service, Poultry Microbiological Safety	Poult Sci. 2008 Sep;87(9):1700-6. DOI Direct Link
Copro-necrophagous beetle (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) diversity in an agroecosystem in Yucatan, Mexico. Scarabaeinae are sensitive to structural habitat changes caused by...	26th September, 2008		Rev Biol Trop. 2007 Mar;55(1):83-99.
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Coprophagia Patents:
US Patent No.	Title
7442720	Compositions and methods for treating diabetes
4210666	Mucolytic thiophenecarboxamido alkyl mercaptans
4265900	N-Aryl-N'-imidazol-2-ylureas
4513140	2-Amino-4,5-dihydro-1H-imizole-1-carboxanilides
4618682	2-amino-4,5-dihydro-1H-imidazole-1-carboxanilides
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