Polyol metabolism in homopterans at high temperatures: Accumulation of mannitol in aphids (Aphididae: Homoptera) and sorbitol in whiteflies (Aleyrodidae: Homoptera)

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 487-494

  Hendrix, Donald L ^a   Salvucci, Michael E ^a  

^a U S WATER CONSERVATION LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aphids; Honeydew; Ketose reductase; Mannitol dehydrogenase; Sorbitol dehydrogenase; Thermoprotection; Whiteflies

Indexed keywords

IDITOL DEHYDROGENASE; MANNITOL; MANNITOL DEHYDROGENASE; POLYOL; SORBITOL;

ALCOHOL METABOLISM; ANIMAL TISSUE; APHID; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ASSAY; FLY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; NONHUMAN; OSMOREGULATION; PROTECTION; THERMOREGULATION;

ALEYRODIDAE; ANIMALIA; APHIDIDAE; APHIS GOSSYPII; BEMISIA ARGENTIFOLII; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; TRIALEURODES VAPORARIORUM;

EID: 0031657942     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(98)10058-2     Document Type: Article

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