Amino acids as taste stimuli for tsetse flies

Physiological Entomology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 278-284

  Van Der Goes Van Naters, Wynand M ^a   Den Otter, Cornelis J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Amino acids; Glossina fuscipes; Mixtures; Taste

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031706286     PISSN: 03076962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3032.1998.233083.x     Document Type: Article

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