Descripción histológica de órganos del sistema digestivo y estructuras anexas de Carollia Brevicauda (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae)
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Chiroptera are a group of flying mammals that play a role of great importance in ecosystems, being dispersers of seeds and pollinators of nocturnal plants. The representatives of the species Carollia brevicauda belonging to the family Phyllostomidae, have a short and wide snout, vary in size from small to medium and have a tricolored coat. As for the digestive system; specialized for its feeding that consists of pulp of small fruits, nectar, pollen and insects. The digestive system is formed by a modified long muscular canal (digestive tract) that extends from the mouth to the anus. In the different groups of vertebrates, the digestive system presents the same structural plan: an anterior intestine formed by the mouth, pharynx, esophagus and stomach; a medium or small intestine and a posterior large intestine that ends in the rectum and anus. Histology allows us to understand the composition, structure and characteristics of the organic tissues of living beings; in this case, more specifically of the digestive system of Carollia brevicauda (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae). This project, makes a histological description of the digestive system of Carollia brevicauda (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae), where it is described; its composition, structure and characteristics of the digestive tract and its annexed structures. Histological studies in these individuals are very scarce, even more in this area, so it is important to expand the information to relate the structures found in the tissues with possible physiological, ethological, or ecological functions, elaborated in the group of research in Neuroscience (Ginud) and Biomolc of the Francisco José de Caldas District University.